IE 8: Expected Windows Update and Automatic Updates schedule

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Now that IE 8 is available for download via Microsoft Download website, users should expect IE 8 being delivered via Windows Update soon. TechARP is reporting that Microsoft will release IE8 via Windows Update a week later and schedule automatic updates at the end of April, 2009.

Refer the IE 8 release notes for more info on the known issues, compatibility issues and other issues.

Microsoft released the Wave 0 (25 languages) which is the RTM version of IE 8 yesterday. The Wave 1 (18 languages) is scheduled on the week of April 20, 2009 and Wave 2 (21 languages) is scheduled on the week of June 1, 2009

Wave 0 (RTM) - Languages
Arabic, Chinese (Hong Kong), Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional),Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (US), Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew,Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil),Portuguese (Portugal), Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish

Wave 1 - Languages
Bosnia (Cyrillic), Bosnian (Latin), Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Estonian, Hindi, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Romanian, Serbian (Cyrillic), Serbian (Latin), Slovak, Slovenian, Thai, Ukrainian, Vietnamese

Wave 2 - Languages
Albanian, Assamese, Basque, Bengali (Bangladesh), Bengali (India), Gujarati, Indonesian, Kannada, Kazakh, Konkani, Kyrgyz, Latvian, Malay (Brunei Darussalam), Malay (Malaysia), Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi (India), Tamil, Telugu, Uzbek (Latin)

Below is the release schedule

Microsoft Download Center
Wave 0 - March 19, 2009
Wave 1 - Week of April 20, 2009
Wave 2 - Week of June 1, 2009

Windows Update
Wave 0 - Week of March 23 (for Beta / RC users) & Week of April 13 (for all other users)
Wave 1 - Week of May 18, 2009
Wave 2 - TBD

Automatic Updates
Wave 0 - April 27, 2009
Wave 1 - May 5, 2009
Wave 2 - June 24, 2009

(3 replies) #1 Titoist on 19 Mar 2009 - 21:37

5 out of the 6 computers today that I upgraded to IE8 caused problems with the sidebar, which led to more problems. This occured in both 32 and 64 bit systems.

#1.1 Chaks on 19 Mar 2009 - 22:18

which "sidebar", you mean Vista Sidebar?

#1.2 andrewbares on 19 Mar 2009 - 23:41

Huh. That's not good.

#1.3 6205 on 20 Mar 2009 - 18:22

Titoist said,

Heh...that you call a problem? I've installed IE8 ENGLISH on my Vista Home Premium 32bit SLOVAK and after restart was system unable to apply any msstyle, Aero or Basic... I could use only lame classic theme. Event viewer was clean, services were running, but when i tried to apply some theme i've get error message with something like visual style was unable to apply or whatever...

Btw. my system is clean, well maintained and no crazy experiments done or utilities used were on it and still this sh*t happened... And uninstallation was not helpfull neither and only system restore gave me finally back Aero. I don't call this a RTM... English versions of MS software were always working on Windows with other language. Native slovak Vista in anyway only from 80% or so translated and many system tools are english, so WTF?

Last edited by 6205 on 20 Mar 2009 - 18:32

(2 replies) #2 neoraptor on 19 Mar 2009 - 21:38

this is way it will go to automatic update after a month, so ms can use the normal users as beta testers

#2.1 +TCLN Ryster on 19 Mar 2009 - 22:34

You probably need a cream for the rash that tin-foil hat is causing on your head.

Seriously, have you ever tried IE8 final? Or are you propagating anti-ms drivel for the fun of it? IE8 is far more stable the alot of software release by other companies.

#2.2 Steven77 on 20 Mar 2009 - 00:34

It still feels kinda beta-ish to me also. I have been reading of lots of different LITLE issues all over the net. Definitely nothing showstopping but definitely an insane amount of bugs being reported for something that has not been out for 24 hours.

(3 replies) #3 KavazovAngel on 19 Mar 2009 - 21:58

The end of April. Seems okay to me.

They should really push IE8 so that those who are still using IE6 could get their browser finally updated, and stop crying when some adware/spyware/virus infect their PCs via IE6.

#3.1 Chaks on 19 Mar 2009 - 22:03

Yea, they should remove IE 6 from every system it runs and automatically update to IE 8! IE 6 is so old now that it can R.I.P!

#3.2 neoraptor on 19 Mar 2009 - 22:21

well those who are using ie6 will continue using it, otherwise they would have already installed ie7

#3.3 andrewbares on 19 Mar 2009 - 23:43

Maybe they don't know that they should get IE 7? That's Google's and Opera's whole argument, that people don't know about Chrome and Opera. Same thing applies to Microsoft's newer versions.

(3 replies) #4 superkid on 19 Mar 2009 - 22:14

What did it exactly do to the sidebar, how can a browser break the vista sidebar?

#4.1 Ideas Man on 19 Mar 2009 - 23:27

The sidebar probably uses the IE engine to render the gadgets.

I'm also curious how it broke the sidebar gadgets though, I suspect they're poorly written gadgets though, didn't break mine.

#4.2 andrewbares on 19 Mar 2009 - 23:44

True true, or he could have viruses. Who knows.

#4.3 Titoist on 20 Mar 2009 - 00:50

Upon boot "Sidebar failed to load and must close" message pops up.

(1 reply) #5 profets on 19 Mar 2009 - 22:31

I guess theres only a difference between Windows Update & Automatic Update for XP/2003? For Vista/2008 theres just windows update i thought?

#5.1 +TCLN Ryster on 19 Mar 2009 - 22:38

No. Although in Vista and 2008 its all exposed through a single interface so it may appear that way, there is still a separation between automatic updates and running the Windows Update process manually.

#6 soldier1st on 20 Mar 2009 - 06:06

i run the sidebar and upgraded to IE8 and do not have sidebar issues so you must have malware or something wrong with your sidebar.

(2 replies) #7 cork1958 on 20 Mar 2009 - 11:48

Will be marking this thing as "don't show again" as soon as it shows up on the update site after trying it for just an hour last night.

5 crashes in that amount of time, plus it takes a day and a half just to start up!! [snipped]

Last edited by GreyWolfSC on 20 Mar 2009 - 17:07

#7.1 David3k on 20 Mar 2009 - 14:30

Edgy moar!

#7.2 GreyWolfSC on 20 Mar 2009 - 17:08

If you're having problems, uninstalling it is an option, as is posting in the Neowin support forum. Please don't post flame-bait, though.

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