IE8 Soon to Play Nicer With Other Browsers

Microsoft has made a change to Internet Explorer 8 that'll make it less of a control freak when being installed into a system where another browser is the default one.

This will all change next month when Microsoft rolls out a dynamic update to correct this behavior.

"We decided to use dynamic updates in order to deliver this change to the market as quickly as possible, rather than re-release IE8 in over 60 languages.  We expect to roll this out in mid-August," Wrote the IE team in the IEBlog. " This change applies not only to IE8 installations on Vista and XP, but also when these users with a non-IE default browser install Windows 7."

Advanced computer users almost always choose to install with custom settings (at least we do), but were you affected by this apparent install "feature" of IE8?

Marcus Yam served as Tom's Hardware News Director during 2008-2014. He entered tech media in the late 90s and fondly remembers the days when an overclocked Celeron 300A and Voodoo2 SLI comprised a gaming rig with the ultimate street cred.