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Internet Explorer 8 RTM Download Today

Thursday, March 19th, 2009 Posted in Betas, Internet Explorer, microsoft, web design | No Comments »

Well, it looks like the wait is over and that today Microsoft will finally release Internet Explorer 8 RTM for download from its web site. The expected time for this being available is 4pm GMT in order to conincide with the ...

Expression Web 3 & SuperPreview

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009 Posted in Betas, CSS, Expression Web, web design | 5 Comments »

UPDATE: Expression Web 3, Silverlight 3 and Expression Studio 3 have now been released, which you can read about in my post, "Expression Web 3 Released" here. [gallery link="file"] Scott Gu has just announced Expression Web 3 at Mix09 focussing on one feature in ...

Silverlight 3 Beta Download Available

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009 Posted in .Net, Betas, Silverlight | No Comments »

As Next Best Geek reported earlier, it looks like the Silverlight 3 Beta SDK and Tools for VS 2008 have been made available for download. There was also a link to a  new Blend Preview, but the link appears to be broken.  Maybe this is ...

Internet Explorer 8 RC 1 Download Available!

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009 Posted in Betas, Internet Explorer, microsoft | No Comments »

Microsoft have now released the release candidate of Internet Explorer 8. You can get the new version from the IE8 web site. Mike Ormond has said that he had a seamless install with the IE8 RC 1, but does give the good ...

Windows 7 First Impressions…

Sunday, January 25th, 2009 Posted in Betas, Windows 7, microsoft | No Comments »

First, HAPPY NEW YEAR! I know its late and I want to apologise to anybody that reads this blog regularly.  It has been a while since my last post because I have been very busy with my day job, but ...

Internet Explorer 8 Beta Problems

Sunday, March 16th, 2008 Posted in Betas, Internet Explorer | 11 Comments »

UPDATE: MARCH 19TH 2009 -  The final version of Internet Explorer 8 should be available today from 4pm GMT from the IE8 web site.  It is expected that this will be announced at the second keynote at MIX this afternoon. UPDATE: ...