I just realized that IE8 has been released. If like me you were put off by some of the earlier betas you can put your mind at ease. There has been a metric ton off discussion around how slow or how fast it may or may not be. In my anecdotal opinion, IE8 is comparable to the other browsers. Microsoft found it necessary, however, to release a video explaining why the stats and discussions about IE8 were not quite valid. We shall see I guess ;)