Early this year Microsoft made a promise that let everyone with full hopes for six months, specially the entire web standards community. Regarding the new Internet Explorer 8, they said that it will "use its most standards compliant mode, IE8 Standards, as the default.".
Well, now that the beta is out, we are now finally able to check for living proof. And, sadly, may pages viewed in IE8 will not be shown in standards mode by default. Microsoft kept this option hidden deep in the Configuration Panel, under "compatibility View". You can see that the option "Display intranet sites in Compatibility View" is checked by default, thus leaving the standards View clearly away from promises made...