I don't think it could hurt, though.
dayglored may be able to answer your question better than I can.
> I honestly do not know the answer to your question. I'm not intimately familiar with IE8, as I use firefox. I don't think it could hurt, though. dayglored may be able to answer your question better than I can.
Thanks for the referral, ShadowAce.
IE8 is a considerable improvement over IE7 (which itself was a vast improvement over IE6 for other reasons, mainly security). I consider it worth upgrading to IE8 primarily because it has a much higher degree of compatibility with standards.
It's more secure than IE7, without becoming dysfunctional about it.
It has a "compatibility mode" which makes it render more like IE6/7 for those pages where coders unwisely used Microsoft's incompatible features (and therefore I call it "incompatibility mode").
Overall I consider it a win, and recommend it if you use Internet Explorer.
Now, all the above aside, I must confess that I dislike IE (all versions), strongly prefer Firefox (which I use almost exclusively on Windows, Mac OS-X and Linux), and I only use IE under duress (e.g. MSDN downloads and other MS pages that require ActiveX). And I think it's wonderful that on Win7 they no longer bring up IE for Windows Updates (at least, not explicitly).