The Federation released IE 8 Beta 1. No one cares because all the beta testers are using Linux. Bonus: I take it apart piece by piece

See here. Here are some of the “new and exciting features”:

• Activities. Uh yeah, we could do that in Firefox back when extensions were introduced. Is it just me, or is Microsoft copying Firefox? I want my lawyer!
• Web Slices. Isn’t that… kinda like Live Bookmarks?
• Favorites Bar. Oh my gosh, it got updated! And… nothing changed?
• Automatic Crash Recovery. Wow, it’s not like IE’s playing catchup. Not like Firefox has had this since 2.0 or anything.
• Improved Phishing Filtering. Does this mean it’ll block Microsoft.com now?