Thinking of Installing IE8? Think AGAIN!

I know you are smarter than that. You don't REALLY want to install a BETA product by the all-damaging Microsoft. But say, for a second, that you had to much to drink and you you are SERIOUSLY considering installing IE8 Beta. Well - RECONSIDER.

According to Microsoft itself, you might not be able to uninstall Internet Explorer 8 once you have it on your PC. How so? Well, for Windows XP users with IE8 Beta 1 already installed, Windows XP Service Pack 3 and IE8 Beta 2 would become permanent. You would be able to upgrade IE8 but you won't be able to downgrade or remove it. Why? Who knows why? That's Microsoft for you.

IE8 Beta 2 will not work with several key services, applications and add-on programs, including certain versions of the Windows Live Mail. IE8 Beta 2 users also are currently unable to view movies on demand from Netflix.

According to Microsoft, IE8 Beta 1 was only intended for use by developers. Consumers running Windows XP need not worry about downloading IE8 Beta 2 so long as they did not install Beta 1.

Confused yet? Yeah, me too. Not that I am thinking about installing that thing on my precious computer, anyway. I'll stick with Firefox 3 and IE6 - if you don't mind, that is. You have been warned, folks. Now don't you go and do dumb things.