The 1.0 version of Internet Explorer 8 was made available for public download today. It is important for anyone in the web business to download and test that your websites do not break on IE8, whether or not you personally use it, because the majority of web users still use IE.

IE8 is only available on the Windows. Highlights of the release include a new address bar, WebSlices, and a feature called “Accelerators”. IE8 also improves its compliance with CSS and has a number of Ajax enhancements. You can download it from this link.