Thursday, March 6th, 2008
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Today I installed the first beta version of Internet Explorer 8. I downloaded the installer from the Microsoft website with Firefox 2. The first attempt to install didn’t succeed because I had to install another Microsoft update first. A website with the link to this download opened in Firefox because this is my default browser. I tried to download the update but I had to do the WGA check first. The stupid check didn’t work in Firefox so I downloaded the update trough IE 7. After installing the update my system needed a reboot. After the reboot I executed the installer for IE8 again. The install finally worked out and I had to reboot again.
Finally up and running and IE 8 started automatically. The first thing I could do was
