Any problems with IE 9 Beta

I installed a beta version of IE 8 back when it was new. Microsoft offered it as if it was good. I have only one system and I installed IE 8 beta into my system that I depend on. I had significant problems with IE 8 beta. When I researched the problems, I found postings from other people with similar problems and the replies were that we should have expected problems with beta versions. I uninstalled the IE 8 beta but there was a bug that persisted after I was restored back to IE 7. Microsoft did not warn me before installation that there were significant problems with the beta version. Due to that experience, I am highly suspicious of beta versions of Microsoft software. I assume that you have more resources available to you if you need to revert back to IE 8 from IE 9 beta; many of us do not. Thank you for taking a chance for us and I hope everyone that follows you is successful. I will wait until it is released, and it is good to hear that it is already working good.

I hope they have finally improved the in-page searching and the Favorites. The IE 8 way of selecting folders for adding favorites was not designed well.

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Sam Hobbs15y ago
I installed a beta version of IE 8 back when it was new. Microsoft offered it as if it was good. I have only one system and I installed IE 8 beta into my system that I depend on. I had significant problems with IE 8 beta. When I researched the problems, I found postings from other people with similar problems and the replies were that we should have expected problems with beta versions. I uninstalled the IE 8 beta but there was a bug that persisted after I was restored back to IE 7. Microsoft did not warn me before installation that there were significant problems with the beta version. Due to that experience, I am highly suspicious of beta versions of Microsoft software. I assume that you have more resources available to you if you need to revert back to IE 8 from IE 9 beta; many of us do not. Thank you for taking a chance for us and I hope everyone that follows you is successful. I will wait until it is released, and it is good to hear that it is already working good.

I hope they have finally improved the in-page searching and the Favorites. The IE 8 way of selecting folders for adding favorites was not designed well.
Mahesh Chand15y ago
I actually did NOT. I installed on my development (this) laptop. So far so good. Everything seems to be working fine.
Actually, after Windows 7, I kinda trust MS :)
Ibrahim Ersoy15y ago
I hope you installed it on a Virtual Disk Environment.

I always install Alpha,Beta version products on Virtual Disks.So that if a problem occurs, my development environment wont be affected.