One of the residents in my retirement village just downloaded IE8 (well actually, Microsoft didn't give her any options, it just downloaded) and now she finds that several of the web sites that she used to go to, no longer work.
These include sites like Wikipedia and Qantas. They just give a message saying that the link has broken.
When I Googled the message, I got a very long-winded explanation of how these sites no longer conformed to IE8's standards, showing me many snippets of code that should be included in the pages to make them work.
Since when did Microsoft write the standards for Internet pages? I thought that HTML4.0 was THE standard.
Has anyone else come across this bizarre behaviour?
I might add that since this first incident, several more residents have had the same experience>

tony
Lenovo lappie, 4Gb RAM, 500Gb HD
Ubuntu 12.04
Running BIAB under WINE