Internet Explorer 8 is now available to download. Chances are your computer updated to automatically without asking so probably have it already, if you use Windows that is. :) As a Windows 7 user (look I play PC games, can’t stand rebooting all the time and I don’t like Vista) I have known for a while that IE8 is no great shakes. Its greatest new feature is that it breaks all the IE specific development we Web  Developers have to incorporate into out sites. Sure it is supposedly more standards compliant but now we have to disable all the old IE fixes for IE8 users, not to mention add the new specific IE8 fixes because ‘standards compliant’ means a different thing to Microsoft developers. For those who want to know it means ‘still broken but in a different way’.

Anyway the Microsoft FUD spreader is on full speed. Microsoft’s new ‘Get the Facts‘ campaign for IE8 is on-line. Anyone who uses the browsers they compare against will know it is bullshit as soon as they start. Like all Microsoft ad campaigns it is about spreading lies about the competitors not telling people the benefits of their software. Which makes sense because there aren’t many beyond ‘I play computer games’.