Microsoft has introduced their second beta of Internet Explorer 8, now available for  public download. IE 8 Beta 2 is available in both 32-bit and 64-bit editions for Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008. This release extends the language support to Japanese, Chinese and German.

The detailed list of version change history can be found here. To download a copy of IE 8 Beta 2, click here.

We focused our work around three themes: everyday browsing (the things that real people do all the time), safety (the term most people use for what we’ve called ‘trustworthy’ in previous posts), and the platform (the focus of Beta 1, how developers around the world will build the next billion web pages and the next waves of great services). “ – MSDN Blogs.