Running IE 8 Beta

Unlike what I did with the pre-release of IE 7, I downloaded IE 8 Beta 1 today to give it a swing.

Upon first start up, everything seems pretty much like IE 7 (good, I am glad Microsoft did the consistency thing this time). There is also a new button that allows the browser to "Emulate IE7".

When you first start up the browser (after you have restarted your computer), it walks you through a little setup wizard thing to get stuff like your search engines, and activity searches setup etc.

Afterwards it takes you to the actual Microsoft.com pages to set that stuff up. Right away I wanted to add Google, so I click on the Google search link to add it to my browser...nothing. Clicked it again....nothing. I decided to try their manual process of setting up a new search engine and received the following message:

Heh, well I'm confused as to what browser I've been using then!

Anyway, I installed it, so I will give it a try here and there and I might report back progress.