It's fair to say that Internet Explorer 8 has been met with mixed feeling in the office. The sales and accounts guys are seeing a new service offering: Internet Explorer 8 compliance testing and fixing, whilst the digital team are collectively slapping their heads as they now have to support another browser - and another Microsoft one at that.
The reason for all the noggin slapping - the browser has been launched with a button that fixes CSS issues by putting itself into backward compatibility mode - effectively making it Internet Explorer 7 again.
The cynic in me thinks that really Microsoft should really just get things right the first time but on the other hand perhaps this is there way of acknowledging their mistakes with browsers past (IE6 standing out in my mind as a truly remarkable beast for all the wrong reasons) and making sure that their customers have a way to adopt (and I use the term adopt loosely given that it is now an automatic update) this new application with a fairly painless escape route when things their customers favourite sites no longer really look like they used to.
The question remains though: Will people know to do this? Probably not. If you know this much about browsers and website layout, aren't you on Firefox already?
Ramblings about browser issues aside, if you are a website owner or manager and would like to talk to someone about the implications of Internet Explorer 8 for your business, then take a look at the article on the website: http://www.sagittarius-digital.com/News/our-news/is-your-website-ready-for-internet-explorer-8.aspx
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