Many people were taken by surprise when trying out the Internet Explorer 8 beta 2 when it first came out.  It was buggy, and the main deal breaker for me was the fact that the Netflix ‘Watch Instantly’ feature didn’t work.  Not that its a feature I use everyday, but at times it just turns a laptop into a portable movie player, and in my application, my laptop sits next to my bed and acts as my movie player since I don’t have cable or a vcr/dvd player in that room.  Not only was it annoying not being able to use the service, but a quick google search showed me that uninstalling IE8 from Vista SP1 wasn’t going to happen (although if you’re upgrading to vista from XP SP3, you’re automatically downgraded to IE7 for the save). › Continue reading…