Well I hope you've all managed to get your site(s) tested in either the Beta or RC1 of Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 because Microsoft have announced at MIX09 that IE8 will be released in 25 languages at 12 noon (EDT) today. So for those of us in the UK that will be at around 4pm. At the minute it's not available to users of previous Windows versions (in other words it's Vista only for now).
What amuses me about their release statement is that they say:
In addition to offering improved security and privacy protections, Internet Explorer 8 is one of the fastest browsers on the market today, beating other top browsers in page load time on almost 50 percent of the 25 top comScore Inc. Web sites.
And then in a footnote they mention that the data is from December 2008 which would mean that it's not counting any of the browser that are faster than it; i.e. all of them.
It should soon be available from the Internet Explorer 8 website.
