IE8 promises tighter security and greater compliance with web standards
Microsoft begins IE8 push to enterprises
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27 Aug 2009, Daniel Robinson , V3
Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) is now available via Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) for organisations that manage updates to systems using this platform.
IE8 was officially released earlier this year, and offers greater compliance with web standards than earlier versions of the browser. It also offers enhanced security features, and the ability for administrators to control some browser behaviour through Group Policy settings in Active Directory.
The new browser is available on WSUS now for Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008 in all supported languages.
For Windows XP, IE8 is currently available on WSUS for some languages, including English and many European languages, and all other supported languages will arrive on 22 September.
Lead IE8 programme manager Eric Hebenstreit explained in a posting on Microsoft's IEBlog that the new browser appears in the Update Rollup category on WSUS, but that it will not be deployed automatically even if Auto Approve for this update category is selected.
Instead, administrators must approve the IE8 License Terms before the browser will be deployed to systems across the network.
Experts have generally recommended that customers upgrade to IE8 for the better security features, but organisations should be aware that there may be compatibility issues with web-based applications designed specifically for older versions of IE.
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Greater Compliance - HaHaHaHa!
What a joke. The author of this article would have you believe that there has been compliance in the past. M$ has done everything they could possibly do in the past to inhibit the growth of other browsers by not being compliant. To this day there would be few web builders that don't detest IE6 because of the lack of compliance & therefore IE7 which did little to change things. Every single page required extra coding "magics" get around the rubbish that was IE6 & IE7.
IE7 was obviously not as bad as the other but IE8 is more compliant or possibly nearly compliant as such. M$ has developed a way of destroying themselves as users become smarter & start using better browsers & that'd be all of the others. As soon as web-makers drop that dependency so will IE be dumped.
Posted by Rex Alfie Lee, 27 Aug 2009