This came after Microsoft used bundling to win the first browser war against Netscape, which was the dominant browser in the 1990s. Internet Explorer was once the most widely used web browser, attaining a peak of 95% usage share by 2003.

New feature development for the browser was discontinued in 2016 in favor of its successor, Microsoft Edge. Microsoft spent over US$100 million per year on Internet Explorer in the late 1990s, with over 1,000 people involved in the project by 1999. Later versions were available as free downloads or in- service packs and included in the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) service releases of Windows 95 and later versions of Windows. Starting in 1995, it was first released as part of the add-on package Plus! for Windows 95 that year. Internet Explorer (formerly Microsoft Internet Explorer and Windows Internet Explorer, commonly abbreviated as IE or MSIE) is a deprecated series of graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft that were used in the Windows line of operating systems. Average users will likely see weird rendering of web pages in IE8.Proprietary, requires a Windows license Note that IE8 is still in beta stage, and the release is probably mainly meant for developers, webmasters, bloggers, website designers and publishers to test the compliance of their sites with IE8. The release note for Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 can be read here. Other features include contextual services to quickly access a service from any webpage named Activities, WebSlices for content subscribing within webpage, Favorites Bar has replaced Links bar, Automatic Crash Recovery and improved Phishing Filter. IE 8 features improvements in Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and layout, programming model, performance, reliability, usability and service integration. Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for Windows Server 2003 SP2 圆4 Edition and Windows XP SP2 Pro 圆4 Editionĭirect Download: IE8-WindowsServer2003-圆4-ENU.exe Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for Windows Server 2003 SP2 (x86)ĭirect Download: IE8-WindowsServer2003-x86-ENU.exe Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for Window XP SP2ĭirect Download: IE8-WindowsXP-x86-ENU.exe Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for Windows Vista 圆4 Edition and Windows Server 2008 圆4 Editionĭirect Download: IE8-WindowsVista-圆4-ENU.exe Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 (x86)ĭirect Download: IE8-WindowsVista-x86-ENU.exe

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