IE8 for Windows Embedded Standard 2009 is Now Available

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Internet Explorer 8 is now available on the ECE site for installing on a Windows Embedded Standard 2009 database.

Internet Explorer 8 is the latest version of the Microsoft web browser. Internet Explorer 8 helps provide end users with a faster, easier, and more secure user experience:

  • Faster:  Internet Explorer 8 is more responsive with new pages and tabs, opening up fast and reliably. An end user can now get to the information in fewer steps. It provides a one click access to an end user's webmail, favorite news sites or other online services.

  • Easier:  Reduce the steps to accomplish many common tasks, and automate an end user's access to real time information updates. An end user can keep track of his/hers favorite sports team, news, weather with a single click.

  • More Private: Helps protect an end user's privacy and confidential information.

  • More Secure: Helps protect and stop malicious software from reaching end user's PC, and makes it easier to detect when a website is an imposter.

The download for Windows Embedded Standard 2009 consists of a database update that includes supports for the following languages:  English, Arabic, Chinese (PRC), Chinese (Taiwan), Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese (Portugal), Portuguese (Brazil),  Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish.

If you want early access to more out-of-band features as they become available then sign up for an MSDN Embedded subscription, where you can test out new features for Windows Embedded Standard 2009.

- Lynda

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