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Microsoft has released Internet Explorer 8.0 Beta 1 (Developer Preview) as a public beta, so it’s now available for everyone at Microsoft.com. It’s mostly interesting at this point for Web Developers and Designers.

It’s an improved version of IE with some new features:

• HTML improvements
• CCS 2.1 compliance
• Improved performance
• Improved namespace support
• Improved Security
• WebSlices
• Activities

Download it here.

I�ve written a new article on www.windowsnetworking.com about Active Directory Domain Services in Windows Server 2008. It�s Part 2 in a series of articles about AD in Windows Server 2008.

In this second part of the article series about Windows Server 2008 Domain Services, I will focus on Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) and briefly cover Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS).

Read the full article here: Windows Server 2008 Domain Services – Part 2: Active Directory Federation Services.