From the MSDNTechNet Live program for Stavanger, September 4 (translation and emphasis by me):
Internet Explorer 8 for Developers
Internet Explorer 8 will be released soon. It is then nice to know what kind of considerations one have to take when developing standard oriented web applications…
There are standards for that?
The first Internet Explorer 8 beta version was released yesterday.
As far as the Acid3 test goes, it made it all the way to 10/100 before it crashed. Restarted, opened up the previous page (Acid3 test) and crashed. Restarted, opened up the previous page (Acid3 test) and crashed. Restarted, … Good start 
Well, at least we’ll be able to test its CSS support (is supposed to support CSS 2.1 in its final release – yay!) – which is good news.
Update: There’s an article on Ajaxian about what’s new in IE8. Good stuff.
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