Browse beyond the page while staying connected with the things you care about most.

Improved Search

Search smarter and with more accurate results from your favorite search provider.

Better Safety and Privacy

Do you want to be better protected from phishing and malicious software downloads? Need to browse with more privacy for that special gift online? Concerned about identity theft and your privacy? The latest version of Windows Internet Explorer has been designed to address these potential threats and more.

Increased Performance

Internet Explorer 8 includes many performance improvements that contribute to a faster, more responsive web browsing experience in the areas that matter most, including when starting the browser, opening a new tab, or loading a page.

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Accelerators

Internet Explorer 8 Accelerators make it faster and easier to connect the web services you care about to any webpage you browse.

Use Accelerators to search, map, e-mail, translate, or share content from any webpage you're currently viewing with just one click. To learn more, read about just a few examples of Accelerators on this page. Best of all, new Accelerators are being added to the Internet Explorer Gallery regularly to further enhance your browsing experience.

With Accelerators in Internet Explorer 8, we're making these experiences much simpler.

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Better Safety and Privacy

Increased security, privacy, and control of your data and information are key benefits of Internet Explorer 8.

Freedom from Intrusion
New features include: InPrivate™ Browsing, InPrivate™ Blocking and an enhanced Delete Browsing History. What this means to you is additional peace of mind and confidence while doing things you do online every day.

Improved User Protection and Control
Confidently bank, communicate, and shop online using the benefits provided by new features such as SmartScreen Filter, InPrivate™ Browsing, and Domain Highlighting.

The new and improved security features in Windows Internet Explorer 8 Beta give you better safety and privacy.

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Web Slices

As part of our daily web browsing, most of us visit many different sites. Browsing directly to each of our favorite sites to stay up to date can be time consuming, and in some cases, not really possible. What if the most compelling content from our favorite websites was delivered to us instead? Internet Explorer 8 Web Slices brings it to you.

Web Slices allow you to subscribe to portions of your favorite websites, and with a single click in the Favorites bar, view and interact with the latest updates you care about most.

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Your Feedback

During the Beta period we're asking for community feedback to ensure we deliver the best possible Internet Explorer 8. If you have any comments or concerns during this Beta period, we'd love to hear from you.

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