{"id":1675,"date":"2008-09-04T18:57:25","date_gmt":"2008-09-04T18:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/news\/archive\/2008\/09\/04\/unless-there-s-a-beta-3-ie8-may-be-set-for-november-release.aspx"},"modified":"2008-09-04T18:57:25","modified_gmt":"2008-09-04T18:57:25","slug":"unless-there-s-a-beta-3-ie8-may-be-set-for-november-release-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/?p=1675","title":{"rendered":"Unless there&#8217;s a Beta 3, IE8 may be set for November release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/journals\/microsoft.ars\/2008\/08\/27\/microsoft-releases-ie8-beta-2-to-the-masses\">Last week<\/a>, Microsoft released Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 in English, German, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese. While it was already known that IE8 would be going final <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/journals\/microsoft.ars\/2008\/07\/24\/internet-explorer-8-final-to-arrive-by-the-end-of-2008\">before the end of the year<\/a> it still wasn&#8217;t clear whether there would be a Beta 3 and when exactly IE8 would be released. It&#8217;s time to try to answer those two questions.  <\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/oas\/default.aspx?prid=12357\">IE8 Beta 2 support page<\/a>, prereleased versions will no longer be supported come November:  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Free unlimited installation and usage support is available for Internet Explorer 8 pre-released versions, but only for North America English customers. This support for Internet Explorer 8 pre-released versions is valid until November 1, 2008. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Full Article &#8211; <a title=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/journals\/microsoft.ars\/2008\/09\/03\/unless-theres-a-beta-3-ie8-may-be-set-for-november-release\" href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/journals\/microsoft.ars\/2008\/09\/03\/unless-theres-a-beta-3-ie8-may-be-set-for-november-release\">http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/journals\/microsoft.ars\/2008\/09\/03\/unless-theres-a-beta-3-ie8-may-be-set-for-november-release<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, Microsoft released Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 in English, German, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese. While it was already known that IE8 would be going final before the end of the year it still wasn&#8217;t clear whether there would be a Beta 3 and when exactly IE8 would be released. It&#8217;s time to try [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[338],"class_list":["post-1675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}