Microsoft officially set the deadline for the final version of Internet Explorer for the end of 2008, and never gave details beyond that. We noted
in September that, according to the
IE8 Beta 2 support page, prerelease versions of IE8 would no longer be supported come November 1, 2008.
Earlier this week I noticed that that date had changed to December 31, 2008 and speculated that the final release of IE8 wouldn't be on time. My suspicions have been confirmed: IE8 has been delayed. The IE blog has given insight on the team's plans, but still hasn't given a concrete date:
We will release one more public update of IE8 in the first quarter of 2009, and then follow that up with the final release. Our next public release of IE (typically called a "release candidate") indicates the end of the beta period. We want the technical community of people and organizations interested in web browsers to take this update as a strong signal that IE8 is effectively complete and done.
Full Story:
Delay confirmed; IE8 will ship in 2009
11-20-2008
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