Windows Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) Free Direct Download

Latest in Microsoft’s line of browser Internet Explorer 8 is packed with new features. The successor to IE 7 was released to the web on March 19, 2009. IE 8 is available as free update for Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 in both 32-bit (x86) and 64-bit (x64). For the better part Windows 7 is already bundled with IE 8. It is easy to uninstall and remove IE 8 from Windows 7. Let’s have a look at the features of the new version of IE 8 as well as learn how to directly download IE8.

Internet Explorer 8 includes a number of new features, let’s take a look:

• In Private (InPrivate Browsing, InPrivate Blocking and InPrivate Subscription) security. It also called porn mode or steal privacy mode.
• Suggested Sites
• WebSlices that keeps track of the entire snippets on a page
• Accelerators that allow the users to invoke online service from any web page using a mouse
• Domain highlighting
• Support for pasting multi-line URLs
• SmartScreen Filter for blocking the phishing sites
• Developer tools that enable HTML, CSS and JavaScript debugging directly from the browser
• Text reflows on zooming to avoid horizontal scrollbars
• IE7 compatibility mode
• It also enhances RSS, AJAX and other web standards
• Automatic crash recovery
• Redesigned favorite bar

Moreover the new version of browser shows significant improvements in performance across HTML parser, CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) engine, mark-up tree manipulation and the JScript runtime.

How to download Internet Explorer 8

The final version of IE8 has been distributed for the Windows XP, Windows Vista Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008 systems. Those systems running Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) or Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) can update IE8 to Windows Update or Microsoft Update. In order to get the standalone setup installer of IE 8 (available in various languages), you can download it from the Microsoft’s Official Site.

To get the English version of IE8 go for the direct download links below

For Windows XP 32-bit Edition

For Windows Server 2003 32-bit Edition

For Windows Server 2003 or Windows XP Professional 64-bit Edition

For Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 32-bit Edition

For Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008 64-bit Edition

There are some documents for the end users, developers, enterprises and IT professionals to make the most of IE8.