The latest version of Internet Explorer IE 8, will be available for download, starting 9.30 p.m (IST) tonight. IE8 will feature faster navigation (through Accelerators), enhanced security and privacy, Visual Search & Web Slices. Accelerators speed up online tasks like search, email, social networking etc. within the active web page; Web Slices appear in the browser s Favorites bar and provide access to updated information from their most visited websites, without physically going there; and Visual Search provides image-based search results.
In India, Microsoft has partnered with the 12 most visited websites, across consumer interest genres, including bharatmatrimony.com, economictimes.com, games2win.com, in.com, indiatimes.com, naukri.com, msnindia.com, rediff.com, sify.com, timesofindia.com, webdunia.com and zapak.com to make web browsing with Internet Explorer more fun. Globally, 15 of the top 20 worldwide sites have partnered with Microsoft to deliver this level of functionality to customers
InPrivate Browsing
Provides consumers the choice of going private on the internet, and ensuring that browsing history and related data is not retained locally on the PC they are using
Compatibility View

IE8 provides people with an easy way to fix display problems such as out-of-place menus, images and text with a Compatibility View button that displays those pages as they were designed to be viewed
Crash recovery

In Internet Explorer 8, if a tab does crash, it is automatically restored and reloaded, and any information the user may have already entered on the page (such as when writing an e-mail or filling out a form) is restored
IE 8 can be downloaded from www.microsoft.com/ie8, starting 9.30 p.m tonight. A RC1 is however available for download before that