I have been avoiding all the brouhaha over the new version of Internet Explorer, but I feel compelled to inform that Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 is now available. Download at your own risk, though; the comments alone are a cautionary tale of grave proportions. (Really, maybe this should have been IE 8 Alpha 1.)

What brouhaha? Version targeting. The new feature was announced over at A List Apart, and quickly stirred up a lot of ire among bloggers (Digital Web Magazine collects all or most of the reactions) and lemurs. The gist? Version targeting is lame.

My opinion is that (1) it seems too cumbersome to really work, and (2) who cares about Internet Explorer? Microsoft needs to scrap the whole browser department, and just package Opera or Firefox with Windows.

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