Microsoft Student Partners

Something useful to all students…  $10,000.

Microsoft is running a treasure hunt, where you download IE8, look out for clues on Twitter to find $10,000 on the Net.

Many of you may have heard the recent announcements regarding Internet Explorer 8 and it’s change to now render in Standards Mode by default.

Well here is your chance to get a preview at that, and start seeing how this is going to impact your development in the futre. When Microsoft released Internet Explorer 7, it broke a lot of sites, simply because the developers were too lazy to test beta versions with their products. Make sure you test it out before it is released.

Apart from rendering in standards mode by default, IE8 includes some new features that are:

Activities
WebSlices
Favorites Bar
Automatic Crash Recovery
Improved Phishing Filter

You can download the beta at http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/ie/ie8/readiness/Install.htm

Luke
MSP (UWA)