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Comments on: Gates: Next IE to be IE8

In utterly unsurprising move, Microsoft chairman confirms name for next version of browser, though neither he nor the company will say anything about product's timing or features.

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Wow, the originality machine

by The_happy_switcher December 5, 2007 3:43 PM PST

in Redmond never stops pumping out 'new' products and 'new' names, does it?

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Well I am an Apple FanBoy...
by Lee in San Diego December 5, 2007 6:10 PM PST: ...and no fan of MicroSoft Explorer, but calling it Explorer 8 makes
sense from a branding point of view. That being said it doesn't
matter what they call it as long as they make web standards
compliant.; Like this

IEVIII....

by XoneDaGnome December 5, 2007 4:03 PM PST

Would be right title.. that way when I just glance at it.. It looks EVIL!!!!

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IE Viii.
by kimatg December 5, 2007 4:33 PM PST: how about Internet Explorer Viii? lol; Like this View reply Hide reply
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EVIL truth
by kool_skatkat December 5, 2007 11:13 PM PST: ... they admitted to be EVIL
or is it just a poor way to copy Apple with the use of Roman numerals for numbers as in Mac OS 10 (Mac OS X)..; Like this

What about IE7?

by Skroob December 5, 2007 4:55 PM PST

I would worry about ironing out the kinks in IE7 before devoting $$$ and programmer time on the next version. That is, unless the new version addresses the problem.
In that case I would just call it a big patch with a pretty new skin.

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The Version
by timber2005 December 5, 2007 6:01 PM PST: Well it depends how far the fix goes. If they redo the entire rendering engine so its CSS compliant through 2.1 (at least), then it really should be called IE8. Anything rendering wise can't be fixed but in a new version so IE verison hacks can apply to it. You cant just say IE7, unless patch m8452025.exe is installed.; Like this

worlds worst browser
by Riquez-001 December 5, 2007 9:22 PM PST: "ironing out the kinks"
& by that you mean fixing the disgrace that is the worlds worst
browser & barely worthy for viewing webpages.; Like this

IE7
by mkaz91 January 2, 2008 11:47 AM PST: According to Paul Thurrott of www.winsupersite.com, IE8 is supposed to fix a number of IE7's problems, especially its confusing new layout.; Like this

Microsoft
by greenengineseo December 6, 2007 12:15 PM PST: Since they are calling it 8. Most likely will be minor improvements. Word is they are focused on a new search engine so they are probably saving up the really cool names for that initiative lol.

Natalie, SEO Goddess
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by katmandue June 14, 2009 6:38 AM PDT: IE 8 stinks don't download and install.; Like this Reply to this comment

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