This morning I wake up to an excellent comment in regards to my prediction that administrators are going to hate IE8. This reader, a developer, did some very detailed research of their own.

I'll reprint the comment in its entirety here:

I downloaded Google Chrome and IE8 the same day (on three different machines, in the end, just to make sure).

My xHTML and CSS validate for the most part (mostly IE6 hacks that cause validation errors!)

• FireFox 1.5, 2.x and 3.0 all show my sites in fine shape on Windows, Ubuntu and Nokia IT OS2008.
• Opera 9.24 and 9.5 show my sites fine.
• Safari on Winblows, Mac and iPhone all look fine. (and I think Macs are a stupid waste of $$$!)
• Google Chrome shows my sites in great fashion - only a minor problem with the TinyMCE WYSIWYG editor that was fixed with a pre-Chrome, regular update.

Google got it right, Micro$oft is still screwing it up.

IE8 has weird little quirks that just don't make sense, like div borders disappearing when mousing over a CSS link. Like ignoring the "hspace" attribute in the non-compatibility mode. Like not displaying all the images on a page. Like JavaScript not firing for 'window.onresize'. Like it installing with a black background on the toolbars (had to change Winblow's theme - going back to previous theme left toolbars with a proper background color)

There are two kinds of "standards compliance": implementing the standards as written so you get expected results with standard mark-up, and beating developers over the heads for not re-writing every old page to accomodate the lack of vision and ingenuiety of Micro$oft programmers.

Web browsers have ALWAYS lived and died by the concept of "failing gracfully" - IE8 is a disgrace all the way around.

I have a good mind to warn every IE visitor that they are using a PoS browser that I refuse to spend MORE copious amounts of time to accomodate.

I put up with quirks for years to ride Triumph and Norton morotcycles. IE8 has no redeeming qualities to make the quirks worthwhile...

There are a number of other great comments at the original post here. What are your thoughts about Microsoft's next browser and the problems it might bring?