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'''Windows Internet Explorer 8''' was released on March 19, 2009. It is the first version of IE to pass the [[Acid2]] test, and the last of the major browsers to do so (in the later [[Acid3]] Test, it only scores 24/100.). According to Microsoft, security, ease of use, and improvements in [[RSS]], [[Cascading Style Sheets|CSS]], and [[Ajax (programming)|Ajax]] support were its priorities for IE8.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.news.com/2100-1012_3-6181334.html | title=Microsoft Hints at General Plan for IE 8 | publisher=[[CBS Interactive]] | work=[[CNET]] | date=May 3, 2007 | last=LaMonica | first=Martin | access-date=January 29, 2018 | archive-date=May 13, 2008 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080513143903/http://www.news.com/2100-1012_3-6181334.html | url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="IE8Hints">{{cite web | url=https://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070502-microsoft-drops-hints-about-internet-explorer-8.html | title=Microsoft Drops Hints about Internet Explorer 8 | publisher=[[Condé Nast]] | work=[[Ars Technica]] | date=May 2, 2007 | last=Reimer | first=Jeremy}}</ref>
Internet Explorer 8 is the last version of Internet Explorer to support [[Windows XP]] SP2–SP3, [[Windows XP Professional x64 Edition|Windows XP x64 Edition]] SP2, [[Windows Server 2003]] SP2, [[Windows Vista]] RTM–SP1 and [[Windows Server 2008]] RTM; the following version, [[Internet Explorer 9]], works only on [[Windows Vista#Service Pack 2|Windows Vista SP2]], [[Windows Server 2008#Service Pack 2|Windows Server 2008 SP2]] or later.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://dvice.com/archives/2010/03/internet-explor.php | title=Internet Explorer 9 Adds HTML5, Drops Windows XP | publisher=[[NBCUniversal Media]] | work=[[Dvice.com]] | date=March 17, 2010 | last=Hall | first=Kevin | access-date=January 29, 2018 | archive-date=August 20, 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120820075603/http://dvice.com/archives/2010/03/internet-explor.php | url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-ie9-developer-preview-with-html5-support-ready-for-download/5572 | title=Microsoft IE9 Developer Preview with HTML5 Support Ready for Download | publisher=[[CBS Interactive]] | last=Foley | first=Mary Jo | website=[[ZDNet]] | date=March 16, 2010}}</ref> Support for Internet Explorer 8 is bound to the lifecycle of the Windows version it is installed on as it is considered an OS component, thus it is unsupported on Windows XP due to the [[Windows XP#End of support|end of extended support]] for the latter in April 2014. Effective January 12, 2016, Internet Explorer 8 is no longer supported on any client or server version of Windows, due to new policies specifying that only the newest version of IE available for a supported version of Windows will be supported.<ref name="cw-dumpie">{{cite web | url=http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9246877/US_CERT_urges_XP_users_to_dump_IE | title=US-CERT urges XP users to dump IE | publisher=[[International Data Group|IDG]] | work=[[Computerworld]] | access-date=April 6, 2014 | first=Gregg | last=Keizer| date=March 11, 2014 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Internet Explorer Support Announcement |url=https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle#gp/msl-ie-dotnet-an |date=August 7, 2015 |website=Microsoft Support Lifecycle|publisher=Microsoft|access-date=August 18, 2015}}</ref> However several [[Windows Embedded]] versions will remain supported until their respective [[End-of-life (product)|EOL]], unless otherwise specified.<ref>{{cite web|title=Internet Explorer Support Lifecycle Policy FAQ|url=http://support2.microsoft.com/gp/microsoft-internet-explorer/en-us|work=Microsoft Lifecycle Support Website|access-date=April 10, 2016}}</ref>
=== Windows Internet Explorer 9 ===
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