Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) just shipped in late March, but Microsoft is already asking users for input on its replacement.
The company has said it is trying to release updates to its venerable browser much more quickly than in the past. Meanwhile, some long-time Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) watchers contributed their own feedback as to what users [...]

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Browser vendors all update their software often to patch for security issues. The problem is that not all browser users update to the latest versions quickly, if at all.
A new study from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology’s Stefan Frei and Google’s Thomas Duebendorfer looked at how quickly users were updating their browsers based on [...]

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Originally posted by Mary Jo Foley
In an effort to improve Web users’ compatibility experience, Microsoft added a new, user-selectable Compatibility List to the Release Candidate test version of IE 8 that the company released in January.
Microsoft describes the list — Version 1.0 of which includes 2,400 sites that don’t render properly in IE 8 [...]

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