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Internet Explorer 8 is the name
Last year Microsoft released Internet Explorer 7, next year (or the year after) the company will launch Internet Explorer 8. Seriously, how do those creative folks in Redmond keep coming up with these clever names?We can't tell you what IE8 will look like, or what improvements it will have over IE7. All we know is that it's got a name. Apparently the IE developer team has been referring to the next version of Internet Explorer as IE8 for a while, and when Bill Gates recently dropped that name, it kind of sealed the fate.
According to the Internet Explorer blog, some other possible names included IE VIII, IE1000 (eight in binary), IE Desktop Online Web Browser Live Professional Ultimate Edition for the Internet. Honestly, we were a bit surprised they didn't go with the last one, but then we realized that it might have been a joke.
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Subscribe to commentsbrianJan 24th 2008 5:49PM
why does everyone hate IE so much? i dont get it. It renders pages correctly EVERY time(firefox has glitches sometimes, so does safari, opera, and anything else using a non-IE engine), launches faster then the others on every computer i've ever owned, which i attribute to it being part of the OS itself rather then a seperate application to start up, its just a new instance of explorer.exe which is already running. Regardless, the complaints of spyware, well i dont get spyware, i'm not a moron. I dont visit porn sites every other day, and i dont click on stupid links. Also i use admuncher which blocks 99% of garbage anyway. I love IE.
WaLeeDFeb 23rd 2008 8:11AM
merci gedannnnnnnnnnnnn
Nik FletcherDec 6th 2007 9:27AM
Microsoft: Happily eschewing web standards since forever. I wish they'd put as much effort into making their standards compliance "suck less" as they do into making witty banter (ahem) on the IE blog. Firefox & Webkit-comparable standards support might just make it into IE by the turn of the next decade at that rate.
/End rant. Back to fixing IE stylesheets
:-)
MarkDec 6th 2007 9:50AM
Not every one is able to come up with snazzy names for products like panther, leopard, tiger and what not.
Quang Anh DoDec 6th 2007 9:53AM
IE Desktop Online Web Browser Live Professional Ultimate Edition for the Internet - I love that name.
tobyDec 6th 2007 10:17AM
IE VIII?
I EVILL!
Hah
iamhoffDec 6th 2007 12:19PM
I missed that one! Classic!
TheTayloeEffectDec 6th 2007 10:31AM
Taking a dig a Microsoft for naming an application based on the version number is a pretty frivolous criticism, Chris.
I understand the Anti-Microsoft agenda here at Downloadsquad, but you must have better ammo then that.
BillDec 6th 2007 11:35AM
Haha, that was pretty funny. Come on guys, I think it's all in good fun. We have to learn to laugh at ourselves.
FlazzDec 6th 2007 12:17PM
Get it... IE8=I Eight=I Ate
oo bill gates ur hilarious
iamhoffDec 6th 2007 12:20PM
"IE Desktop Online Web Browser Live Professional Ultimate Edition for the Internet." I just want to know when the SP2 version drops.
ZelidarDec 6th 2007 1:00PM
As there is a finite number of species and an even much smaller one
of sexy animal kinds Apple OS users can logically hope that it will
eventually be finished.
About Microsoft's naming, on the other hand, mmh, ... Aha, that's why!
KevinDec 6th 2007 10:01PM
Strange. I could swear Firefox and Opera use their version number for their name as well. But I don't recall this piece of news damning the whole industry for that... just Microsoft... Strange...
At least the less computer literate people (who are also the ones likely to use Internet Explorer because it's there) will be able to tell that IE8 is probably better than IE7, based on the number. If you were to call it "Internet Explorer Extreme" or something, they would have no idea if it was better or worse than 7, although they may think Extreme sounds better, but when "Internet Explorer Ultra" comes out afterwards, then what will they do?
mgthantzinDec 7th 2007 1:44AM
Microsoft Windows Internet Explorer 8 Home Basic Edition
Note: Home Basic Version disallows you Internet access. :)
DavidDec 29th 2007 5:26AM
So does Internet Explorer!
Dave ForsterDec 7th 2007 5:47AM
Hmm... now i'm no Internet Explorer fan... far from it. But I have to say that "IE8" has a better ring to it than say :
F2.0.0.11 (Firefox) or
O9.24 (Opera) or
S3 (Safari) or
... you get my drift. Actually S3 doesn't sound that bad!
drhowarddrfineDec 17th 2007 12:10AM
"...but then we realized that it might have been a joke."
Yes, you are right. All versions of IE are a joke.
DavidDec 29th 2007 5:22AM
Internet Explorer Ultra. Sounds like laundry detergent.
If after eight tries, Microsoft can't come up with a browser that works I think they should give it up!
Save Netscape Navigator!