Microsoft releases IE8 Partner Build tonight

To be honest I wasn’t really expecting them to release this, considering they only recently posted detailing their release schedule from now until launch (which this Partner build wasn’t included in).

However, like a few others I was concerned that they weren’t going to release another Beta, so I’m pleased they’ve released this version which bridgees the gap between Beta 2 and the Release Candidate which should be with us by the first quarter of next year.

They’ve literally only just notified me of this private build, so I’ve only had time to run through the test cases for the bugs that I spotted and logged on my own IE8 Bugs page; after some initial testing, it appears they’ve fixed five out of the twelve bugs that I spotted in Beta 2.