Finally after all the secrecy dating back to October of 2006 about IE 8 we FINALLY get to see it.

As was the case with IE 7 be VERY careful if you're trying this out at home/work as by default IE 8 replaces your IE 7 installation.

All told it's ALLOT of new stuff in IE 8. And it's all stuff that we've never heard about before.

Things like WebSlices  which according to Microsoft's description, "is a new feature for websites to connect to their users by subscribing to content directly within a webpage. WebSlices behave just like feeds where clients can subscribe to get updates and notify the user of changes."

They've also defaulted to a more standards compliant mode by default for IE 8. While standards sound nice, the brutal reality is that in a quick look through with IE 8 I found that many sites just don't look right. Sure there is an IE 7 mode to look at sites, but I suspect the standards compliance issue will be the biggest hurdle facing both Microsoft and its users with this first release of IE 8