download internet explorer 8 for windows 7 64 bit

It's good to see Microsoft fight back with a vengeance, but the company has more competition than ever before, from the likes of Firefox, Safari, Chrome, and Opera.

However, with IE8, which is bigger leap from IE7 than IE7 was from IE6, Microsoft is pulling out the big guns and offering features which other browsers have yet to adopt. IE7 was a catch-up release, there's no question about that. Putting browser standings aside though, why is Hachamovitch excited for the public response to IE8? Well, the lengthy feature list is one thing, but what really needs to be emphasized here is that IE8 puts Microsoft back in the game. The news about IE8's resource usage is promising: despite all the new features and tweaks to the browser, Microsoft still kept performance of the actual program under scrutiny during development. Ars had a chance to talk to Dean yesterday about IE8's release, and he touted the fact that IE8 uses fewer resources than earlier versions and said he was 'excited about how people will respond to IE8.' Hachamovitch also laid to rest any speculation that IE8 would be the final version of the browser or that IE9 would switch to WebKit. You can watch his one-hour keynote live right now over at but it will also be available on demand later in the day on the same site.

A quick note to all the IT administrators out there reading this post: the IE8 blocker toolkit is already available, so make sure you get acquainted with it if you're planning on avoiding IE8 when it's released via Microsoft's update channels.ĭean Hachamovitch, general manager of Internet Explorer, will be announcing the release of IE8 to the masses at MIX09 today. For everyone else, in the coming weeks Microsoft will put IE8 out as an optional download on Windows Update and then later roll it out to users via Automatic Updates.

The public Windows 7 beta is not being updated, and although Microsoft released an update for IE8 for Windows 7 in February, the next update is not likely to arrive until the Windows 7 Release Candidate next month. You can also grab the download directly from these links: Windows XP 32-bit (16.1 MB), Windows XP 64-bit (32.3 MB), Windows Server 2003 32-bit (16.0 MB), Windows Server 2003 64-bit (32.3 MB), Windows Vista 32-bit (13.2 MB), Windows Vista 64-bit (24.3 MB), Windows Server 2008 32-bit (13.2 MB), and Windows Server 2008 64-bit (24.3 MB). The final build of Internet Explorer 8 has been released in 25 languages.

Download internet explorer 8 for windows 7 64 bit