Microsoft: Speed not top priority in IE 8

During a press demonstration for beta 2 of Internet Explorer 8, product marketing director Stephane Kimmerlin noted that IE8's most important features are related to enhancements made to its user-interface. Excelling at performance benchmarks, such as the amount of time needed to load web pages, was not the priority. Kimmerlin's reply came in response to a question on IE8's JavaScript engine. The genesis of this question has its roots in the recently-released Chrome browser by Google. Google claims its V8 JavaScript engine processes JavaScript applications much faster than competing software. Kimmerlin advises that users who must know need to wait for the final release of IE 8 before running any performance benchmarking tests.

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