Well we're here in Las Vegas (more on that later), getting ready for Mix to officially start with the keynote this morning, and it looks like we're not the only ones getting ready.  Thanks to LiveSide member pikalu0530, we can show you two web pages up now, all set to provide download links for IE8.  Just a quick glance shows some new features - activities, and web slices:

(click on the images for the links:)

here's the download page:

As usual, it's tricky to get posts up from the convention, but we'll be monitoring the keynote, and bringing you more soon.