IE8 Beta 1 in Deutsch - German and Chinese (Simplified) Now Available

The IE team is pleased to announce the availability of Chinese (Simplified) and German versions of Windows Internet Explorer Beta 1 for Developers. The two languages released today are fully localized versions of the IE8 English Beta 1, released March 5, 2008. They carry with them the same improved CSS 2.1 support, better scripting performance, and other features and improvements that the English beta 1 developer release contains.

Download links:
IE8 Beta 1 Chinese (Simplified) for Developers
IE8 Beta 1 German for Developers

Supported Platforms:
This release is supported on the same platforms as the previous IE8 Beta 1 English release. Here are the supported operating systems:
Windows Vista
Windows Vista SP1 (final version only - Currently available to MSDN and TechNet Plus subscribers and Volume License customers)
Windows XP SP2
Windows XP SP3 (RC2 candidate - Build 3311 or higher)
Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
Windows Server 2003 SP2
Windows Server 2008 (final version only)
For install guidelines, please see the "How to Install the German or The Chinese (Simplified) Builds of Internet Explorer" section of the Windows Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 release notes here.
Please note that each international version may only be installed on its native language operating system or on English versions of the operating system with the native language’s Multi-language User Interface (MUI) installed. You can learn more about Multi-language User Interfaces (MUI) here.

Source: http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/

Download for Windows XP 32 Bit Deutsch:
Windows Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 für Windows XP
http://download.microsoft.com/download/d/1/0/d10c4d10-29c2-4976-a79c-729c5fea1501/IE8-WindowsXP-x86-DEU.exe

Windows Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 für Windows Vista und Windows Server 2008 32 bit Deutsch:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/f/3/6f32ee0d-ae80-4745-b19e-6453af15fdc2/IE8-WindowsVista-x86-DEU.exe

Windows Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 für Windows Server 2003 SP2 32 bit Deutsch:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/8/c/18c1aca9-e3b0-4931-9d4f-ad5a57671c67/IE8-WindowsServer2003-x86-DEU.exe

Windows Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 für die 64-Bit-Editionen von Windows Server 2003 SP2 und Windows XP Professional 64 bit Deutsch:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/9/6/7969c466-54d9-47f1-a90c-9d5305aada90/IE8-WindowsServer2003-x64-DEU.exe

Addons:

UAPick (90kb)
Hint: Want a silent / unattended install? Use the command line: UAPickSetup.exe /S
Internet Explorer 8 UAPick (This small little add-on allows you to quickly customize the User-Agent string sent by IE8 without restarting. Googlebot, Opera, Safari etc...) http://www.enhanceie.com/ietoys/uapick.asp

Bayden IEToys:
IE is a powerful web browsing environment, and with a few simple power-ups, it's even better. You can add functionality to IE5, 6, and 7 with these tiny tools that take up almost no disk space, and won't slow down or destabilize IE. Free of charge and free of spyware. Works with IE 8 Beta! http://www.enhanceie.com/ietoys/
Download IEToys (123kb)

more Internet Explorer Plugins and Tools:
http://www.enhanceie.com/Other/

IE7Pro 2.2:
IE7Pro is a must have add-on for Internet Explorer, which includes a lot of features and tweaks to make your IE friendlier, more useful, secure and customizable. IE7Pro includes Tabbed Browsing Management, Spell Check, Inline Search, Super Drag Drop, Crash Recovery, Proxy Switcher, Mouse Gesture, Tab History Browser, Web Accelerator, User Agent Switcher, Webpage Capturer, AD Blocker, Flash Block, Greasemonkey like User Scripts platform, User Plug-ins and many more power packed features. You can customize not just Internet Explorer, but even your favorite website according to your need and taste using IE7Pro. Support for Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1
http://www.ie7pro.com/download.php?language=en
Download 32 bit: http://dl.ie7pro.com/ie7prodl/IE7proSetup_2.2.exe
Download 64 bit: http://dl.ie7pro.com/ie7prodl/IE7proSetup_2.2.x64.exe
Betas: http://forum.ie7pro.com/viewforum.php?id=9
Scripts: http://www.iescripts.org/
Take Control
Just a quick and dirty script to stop sites from disabling the right mouse button such as Seba14.org and Leecher-wor1d. Also stops sites from disabling printing and text selection. NOTE - I haven't tested the print bit much, so it may not always work.
I only added the most common elements to this, if you want to add new ones, just add them to the array.
Quickfix version 1.5.2 - Sorted out the printing issue (don't know why it took so long to add one word in, but oh well). Removed onfocus as it is commonly used for effects.
http://www.iescripts.org/view-scripts-221p1.htm

User-Agent Test Page / Seite:
http://www.fiddlertool.com/useragent.aspx

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