nternet explorer 8 brought many useful changes in comparison to IE7. The browser was downloaded by the thousands on its release date. As usual, with a new browser comes a new problem. Not least of which is the slow behavior being reported by users of IE8.

Many reported IE8 being very slow as compared to earlier versions, so much so that many folks just hung onto IE7. In truth, the IE8 browser is more stable and less prone to crashing but slow behavior seems to be an affliction. Firefox users have rallied against the IE8 browser by reporting loading speeds amounting to half the time it takes a web page to load in IE8.

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It is vital that you don’t neglect backing up your data. Vista users have some excellent options for performing this easy task. The risk of losing data is too high and if you value your business or personal data then you will place backing up data on a high priority.

You are aware of the top excuse:

“I am just too busy to spend time performing a backup…”

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Now in its beta phase, Windows 7 can be pre-ordered for its launch date of Oct 22nd. If you enjoy Vista and wish to see how Windows 7 improves on the visual enhancements that separated Vista from XP, you can try out the release candidate RC version here.

I will probably need to revamp this review when the official release arrives, though going by the RC version, I can confirm that some subtle differences are in place mainly to excite Vista lovers. Though, some consideration has been given to Über XP fans still straying away from Vista. It’s not surprising since there have been so many issues with Vista’s performance.

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