Microsoft’s Internet Explorer Beta2 has a keystroke logger suggestion tool similar to used by Google for its Google suggest feature. Unlike the Google Chrome IE8 keystroke feature is not enabled by default, IE8 beat2 users has to enable this feature. Microsoft does not enable Suggest site feature by default but they are asking using users whether they want to use Suggested feature or not after the IE8 beat2 installation. This makes a huge difference as compare to Google’s Chrome because Google Chrome enables this feature by default.Microsoft Suggested site privacy statement privacy statement does not provide any information how long Microsoft server will keep user data as compare to Google where Google has clearly mentioned that they will delete the user data after nine months. Only thing I like to see in this is that Microsoft has to make a clear statement how long they will kept user data.
Microsoft Suggested site privacy statement
Suggested Sites is an online experience designed to show you which websites you visit most, and to provide you with suggestions of other websites you might be interested in visiting. When you turn on Suggested Sites, your web browsing history is sent to Microsoft, where it is saved and compared to a frequently updated list of websites that are similar to ones you visit often. You can choose to pause or stop this feature from sending your web browsing history to Microsoft at any time. You can also delete individual entries from your history at any time. Deleted entries will not be used to provide you suggestions for other websites, although they will be retained by Microsoft for a period of time to help improve our products and services, including this feature. Any websites you visit while InPrivate Browsing is active will not be sent to Microsoft.
When Suggested Sites is turned on, the addresses of websites you visit are sent to Microsoft, together with some standard information from your computer such as IP address, browser type, and regional and language settings. To help protect your privacy, the information is encrypted when sent to Microsoft. Information associated with the web address, such as search terms or data you entered in forms might be included. For example, if you visited the Microsoft.com search website at http://search.microsoft.com and entered “Seattle” as the search term, the full address http://search.microsoft.com/results.aspx?q=Seattle&qsc0=0&FORM=QBMH1&mkt=en-US will be sent. Address strings might unintentionally contain personal information, but this information is not used to identify, contact or target advertising to you.
Statistics about your usage of Suggested Sites will also be sent to Microsoft such as the time that websites were visited, which Website referred you, and how you got there (e.g., by clicking a link or one of your Favorites). This information, along with the Website addresses and past history, will be used to personalize your experience, as well as improve the quality of our products and services. Microsoft will not use any information collected to identify, contact or target advertising to you.
How to turn on Suggested Sites:
- In Internet Explorer, click the Tools button.
- Click Suggested Sites. A check mark will indicate Suggested Sites is turned on.
How to turn off Suggested Sites:
- In Internet Explorer, click the Tools button.
- Click Suggested Sites to clear the check mark and turn Suggested Sites off.
Note: Turning off Suggested Sites does not clear your history.
To delete your browsing history (with or without turning off Suggested Sites), follow these steps:
- In Internet Explorer, click the Safety menu.
- Select Delete Browsing History
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Consumers can now download Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 version. IE8 is available in 32- and 64-bit editions of Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, and Windows Server 2008. In addition to English, IE8 Beta 2 is available in Japanese, Chinese (Simplified), and German. Additional languages will be available soon.Internet Explorer 8 makes it easier to visit sites you’ve been to before with the new Smart Address bar and enhanced Favorites bar, works with your search provider to suggested likely searches based on what you type into the instant search box, groups tabs to match the way you browse the web and gives you Accelerators and Web Slices to keep you closer to the sites and services you use every day.
Internet Explorer 8 improves upon our protection against social engineering “phishing” attacks in Internet Explorer 8 because the new SmartScreen™ Filter helps protect against malware sites and downloads. Internet Explorer 8’s new Cross-Site Scripting Filter helps protect users against Cross-Site Scripting Type-1 reflection attacks, one of the most common attacks against websites. We have also introduced new features that help protect users’ privacy with an enhanced Delete Browsing History experience. InPrivate™ Browsing mode protects users’ privacy locally on their machine by not recording cookies, Temporary Internet Files and history while browsing. InPrivate™ Blocking gives users choice and control over their online privacy while respecting the value exchange of 3rd party content on the web.
The new Compatibility View mode in Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 helps ensure that users can use all the sites they use today without display or functionality issues. Compatibility View represents a big improvement over “Emulate IE7” mode in Beta 1 because compatibility can now be set on a site by site basis rather than for the whole browser session and has been enhanced to be compatible with more sites. The new architecture of Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 helps ensure that a single tab crashing does not cause users to lose their whole browser session, and crash recovery restores the crashed site and content. With new features to manage, enable and disable browser add-ons, users have better control over what code is running inside their browser and can easily disable toolbars or browser helper objects that are causing instability or performance issues.
IE8 Beta 2 includes a number of new features, such as:
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InPrivate™ Browsing: Enables users to browse the Web with greater confidence, without any evidence of searches or sites visited retained by the browser.
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InPrivate Blocking: Helps prevent third-parties that serve content on a Web page from tracking the user’s Web surfing activities.
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SmartScreen® Filter. Helps protect against phishing Web sites, and sites known to distribute malware.
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Performance improvements: Reduces the time that users must wait when starting the browser, opening a new tab, or loading a page.
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Enhanced “Find on this Page”: Enables users to find text on a Web page more easily, in a way that does not obscure any of the page’s content.
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Redesigned “New Tab” Page: Provides links to use an Accelerator, activate InPrivate browsing, reopen closed tabs, or restore the last browsing session.
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Enhanced Address Bar: Provides matches as the user types across History, Favorites, and RSS Feeds, searching against all parts of the URL string (and the page title) instead of just the beginning. Allows mistyped entries to be removed from the address bar
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Enhanced Tabbed Browsing: Tabs are grouped and color-coded so user can quickly discern which are related. Users can easily group or ungroup tabs, and can reopen closed tabs.
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Enhanced Instant Search Box: Real-time search suggestions (including images) and inclusion of Web sites in the user’s History make it easier to find content of interest.
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IE Gallery, launching with IE8 beta 2, is a place for you to share, rate and review Activities and Web Slices designed for Internet Explorer 8. Partners and publishers big and small can use it to share their own content and customers can use it to discover new ways to connect with their favorite web sites and services.
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Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) Beta 1 is available for download. it’s a new version of Microsoft browser.This new version has some significant improvements as compare to previous version of the Internet Explorer.
- Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and layout
- Programming model performance.
- Reliability usability.
- Service integration.
There are a lot of new feature that has been added in Internet Explore 8.
Activities : Activities are contextual services to quickly access a service from any web page. Users typically copy and paste from one web page to another. Internet Explorer 8 Activities make this common pattern easier to do.
WebSlices : WebSlices is a new feature for web sites to connect to their users by subscribing to content directly within a web page. WebSlices behave just like feeds where clients can subscribe to get updates and notify the user of changes. 
Favorites Bar: In Internet Explorer 7, the Links bar provided users with one-click access to their favorite sites. The Links bar has undergone a complete makeover for Internet Explorer 8. It has been renamed the Favorites bar to enable users to associate this bar as a place to put and easily access all their favorite web content such as links, feeds, WebSlices and even Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents.
Automatic Crash Recovery:Automatic Crash Recovery (ACR) is a feature of Windows®Internet Explorer® 8 that can help to prevent the loss of work and productivity in the unlikely event of the browser crashing or hanging. The ACR feature takes advantage of the Loosely-Coupled Internet Explorer feature to provide new crash recovery capabilities, such as tab recovery, which will minimize interruptions to users’ browsing sessions. 
Improved Phishing Filter:Internet Explorer 7 introduced the Phishing Filter, a feature which helps warn users when they visit a Phishing site. Phishing sites spoof a trusted legitimate site, with the goal of stealing the user’s personal or financial information. For Internet Explorer 8, we are building on the success of the Phishing Filter with a more comprehensive feature called the “Safety Filter.”
Internet Explorer 8 can be installed on Microsoft Windows Vista® Service Pack 1 (SP1), Windows Vista, Windows XP® Service Pack 2 (SP2), Windows Server® 2008 and Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2). Downloads are available from the following locations:
All the information given above is taken from Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 Web site.
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