Microsoft solicits more IE 8 beta testers
Microsoft has put out a call for more Internet Explorer (IE) 8 beta testers via the IE Blog this week. The next beta of IE 8 is due some time in August. Microsoft officials said recently to expect the final version of IE 8 to be released to the Web later this year.
In a July 30 posting on the IE blog, Microsoft solicited additional testers for the upcoming beta, which is going to be targeted at users (as opposed to developers, who were the target of Beta 1 of IE 8, which Microsoft released in March).
IE team members also blogged earlier this week about some of the new reliability features that Microsoft is building into IE 8. One of these — automatic crash recovery, which will help users get back to the site/page they last visited before a browser crash — is one of those features that I (and plenty of other IE users) requested repeatedly when Microsoft asked what we wanted to see in the next IE release.L33tdawg: The folks from Redmond are also scheduled to talk about IE 8 during the upcoming HITBSecConf2008 - Malaysia in October. For those of you who remember, Microsoft brought IE7 to HITB back in 2005 with beta copies for attendees, so hopefully we'll be able to do the same for IE8 this year :)
