Microsoft released a new public beta of Internet Explorer browser yesterday. It is called IE 8 Beta 1 and is said to be primarily targeted at web developers and designers. The new update seems to have improved security features as well as usability enhancements. It is also faster than previous IE versions. Source: IE BlogTwo interesting new features in IE 8 are Activities and webslices. Activities are services that give quick access to external services from a web page. Webslices enables users to subscribe to content directly within a web page without going in for RSS feeds. Users receive notifications when the page content changes. We installed IE 8 Beta 1 on a Windows Xp SP2 system and it seems to be an improvement over IE7. It is too early to judge anything now and we will get to hear more about IE8 in the coming days.

Of course, we couldn't resist checking out how Site24x7 looks like on IE 8 and it seems to be working well.