Recently I’ve decided to give IE8 a go, mainly since I’ve heard that it features a MSDN IEBlog on IE8 and Acid2. So I’ve downloaded the installer from Microsoft, and tried to install it. As it turns out, the installation was a breeze.
A good-looking installation splash screen:
Agree to license terms as usual:
Option to download and install the latest updates:
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Downloading…
Installing…
Done.
Firing up IE8, it didn’t look much too different to IE7. The first thing to try was the Acid2 test that was meant to work. Oops.