Fashion Uprising recently discovered that Microsoft IE 8.0 was circulating online, and then got confirmation from Microsoft's official website. Indeed, in less than half a year, Microsoft has upgraded twice.
On October 4, 2007, Microsoft released IE 7 for download, and this version verified the authenticity of the WINDOWS platform.
Afterwards, they also launched a free version of Internet Explorer 7.0, which can be used without requiring a genuine copy, meaning that even pirated versions of the WINDOWS platform could install it. In less than half a year later, Microsoft launched Internet Explorer 8.0.