Step-by-step upgrade instructions are available in this separate blog post, too. You can grab the release candidate from Microsoft’s Windows Internet Explorer 8 page. Microsoft cites the example of the favorites bar, where users should now have an easier time fitting additional items.

Some changes prompted by user feedback have also made it into this build. We also made some changes to InPrivate based on feedback from customers and partners. Sites can now protect themselves and their users from clickjacking attacks “out of the box,” without impacting compatibility or requiring browser add-ons. We’ve worked closely with people in the security community to enable consumer-ready clickjacking protection. We’ve studied the telemetry feedback about the browser’s underlying quality and addressed many issues. Reliability, Performance, and Compatibility improvements.With the Release Candidate, we’re listening carefully for critical issues. We’ve listened very carefully to feedback from the betas. We’ll post separately about the thousands of additional test cases we’re contributing to the W3C. The IE8 product is effectively complete and done. The technical community should expect the final IE8 release to behave as the Release Candidate does. According to a post on the official IEBlog, the RC1 build improves upon last year’s beta 2 release in a number of ways: As expected, the first Internet Explorer 8 release candidate became available for download this afternoon.

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