Stephen Shankland over at CNET spent an entire week using only Internet Explorer 8 to try and gauge its strengths and weaknesses.

Today Microsoft kicked off its launch of Internet Explorer 8 at the Mix 09 show:

"We are releasing it here at Mix because we are excited about what you, the developers, can build with it," IE general manager Dean Hachamovitch said. Hachamovitch then launched into a demo of the new browser, touting its anti-malware features, such as protection from click-jacking attacks.

Some of the biggest features touted is the so-called “private browsing” that leaves no tracks behind of your surfing, and the “accelerators” that allow users to take action without leaving a website.

Personally, I think this browser rollout makes for good entertainment but not much else. Under no circumstances would I ever use IE to surf the web ever again. Firefox and even Google’s Chrome are vastly superior browsers.