Posted by Mary Jo Foley @ 3:19 pm

Even though Microsoft already released the final standalone version of Internet Explorer 8 (IE in March, the company is continuing to add new functionality to the version of IE 8 that is bundled with Windows 7.

One of the new features not in the standalone build — but present in the version of IE 8 that is in the Windows 7 Release Candidate — is a new tab-responsiveness capability.

One of the selling points of IE 8 is tab isolation. Tab isolation means if one tab crashes, it doesn’t (necessarily) crash your whole browser. I like tab isolation. What I don’t like, as I’ve noted previously, is the tab unresponsiveness I’ve had since I downloaded the final IE 8 bits on my trusty ThinkPad X60 running Windows XP.

Continued @ All about Microsoft Blog