Microsoft has put in place the preparations for Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 ready for Mix 08.
A full features page has been revealed which lists the following additions to Internet Explorer:



Mix 08 컨퍼런스에 대비한 인터넷 익스플로러 8베타 1이 공개되었습니다.
다음과 같은 특징들을 가지고 있다네요.



    * Activities
    * WebSlices
    * Favorites Bar
    * Automatic Crash Recovery
    * Improved Phishing Filter

Activities allow users to lookup/send information in a right-click contextual menu, such as retrieving an address map from Windows Live Maps, submitting a story to Digg, sharing a page on Facebook etc. WebSlices allows users to crop a specific area section of a site and bookmark it. Improvements have been made to the phishing filter which continues to block known Phishing sites and now blocks sites known to contain malicious software that could harm users’ computer or steal their information.

Perhaps one of the best new features is Automatic Crash Recovery which recovers your tabs if your browser crashes. It is widely expected that Microsoft will release the first beta of Internet Explorer 8 at this years Mix 08 which begins today.

Update: The download is now live and can be installed on Microsoft Windows Vista, XP, Server 2008/2003



Activities는 사용자가 오른쪽 마우스를 통한 컨텍스트 메뉴에서 윈도 라이브 맵스, Digg에 스토리 서브밋, 해당 페이지를 페이스북에서 공유하기 등이 가능하다고 하네요.. (우리나라사람들은 잘 안쓸듯한 기능들..)
마이크로소프트의 다운로드 페이지는 [여기]에 링크 걸어두었습니다.
자동 크래쉬 복구는 파이어폭스에서 플러그인을 통해 쓰던 기능인데, 8에 탑재되어 있네요 ㅎㅎ