The first talk about IE8

Bet you can't guess the new features

[netchicken1]

Neither can anyone else. The first talk covers the gripping and totally irrelevent topic of what name its going to be.

At least it wasn't an indepth analysis of the logo or color scheme.

But its great to see that Microsoft is on the ball and getting their marketing ironed out before actually designing a product.

This information release has to be a form of satire....
I think they are deliberatly winding the readers up :)

[blogs.msdn.com...]

Just as he was the first to talk about IE7, Bill Gates kept the tradition alive and discussed IE8 at the Mix ‘n Mash event here on campus yesterday. Bill was talking to some bloggers about IE.Next and called it IE8, the same way we do here in the IE team hallway.

So, yes, the version after IE7 is IE8. We looked at a lot of options for the product name. Among the names we considered and ruled out:

IE 7+1
IE VIII
IE 1000 (think binary)
IE Eight!
iIE
IE for Web 2.0 (Service Pack 2)
IE Desktop Online Web Browser Live Professional Ultimate Edition for the Internet (the marketing team really pushed for this one ;-)
Ie2.079 (we might still use this for the Math Major Edition)

[edited by: encyclo at 11:35 pm (utc) on Dec. 6, 2007]
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[BeeDeeDubbleU]

Perhaps they should fix IE7 before talking about 8?

[encyclo]

MS is all spin. They hyped Vista for five years, the usual reply to any criticism resumes to "wait and see the next version".

When they release it, then I'll start looking. :)

[rocknbil]

^ ^ ^ Isn't that what MS has always done? I'm reminded of the three wives on girls' night out joke, "All he does is sit on the edge of the bed and tell me how good it's going to be when it gets here."

Bet you can't guess the new features

We can only hope the peekaboo bug, duplicate, and hasLayout bugs are sought out and squashed, once and for all. :-(

[surrealillusions]

"IE lets see if we've made any improvements this time and tried not to blatantly copy Firefox"

thats what the next ie should be called.

;) :P