Also, here's Ars Technica's take on the report
http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/new...ost-secure.ars

It does skew the facts a little, that Microsoft sponsored the tests--although according to NSS Labs, it was Microsoft's Security Engineering Team that sponsored the tests as a way to foster improvement in IE8.

My personal take is that IE8 is good, although on one of my systems I have nothing but problems with it (both on Vista and Windows 7 RC). On my other system it's doing a fairly good job -- although I haven't installed anything else to compare it with. And I don't use the third system enough to actually give an opinion about it. But, all three of my systems are running IE8 either upgraded or because they run Windows 7.

Have a great day
Patrick.