Internet Explorer 8 RC 1

A week ago I sat down with Dean Hachamovitch, General Manger of the IE team at Microsoft and we talked about Internet Explorer 8 RC 1. In the video below, he outlines what he believes are the compelling reason to use Internet Explorer 8.

The first reason he mentioned was this is now a stable [...]

January 22, 2009 Tags: Dean Hachamovitch, Defense in Depth, Internet Explorer 8, microsoft, Robert Vamosi, security, Windows Posted in: Uncategorized, Windows, Windows Vista, Windows XP, microsoft Comments Closed

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