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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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brian said 5:49PM on 1-24-2008
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.
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WaLeeD said 8:11AM on 2-23-2008
merci gedannnnnnnnnnnnn
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Nik Fletcher said 9:27AM on 12-06-2007
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
:-)
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Mark said 9:50AM on 12-06-2007
Not every one is able to come up with snazzy names for products like panther, leopard, tiger and what not.
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Quang Anh Do said 9:53AM on 12-06-2007
IE Desktop Online Web Browser Live Professional Ultimate Edition for the Internet - I love that name.
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toby said 10:17AM on 12-06-2007
IE VIII?
I EVILL!
Hah
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iamhoff said 12:19PM on 12-06-2007
I missed that one! Classic!
TheTayloeEffect said 10:31AM on 12-06-2007
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.
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Bill said 11:35AM on 12-06-2007
Haha, that was pretty funny. Come on guys, I think it's all in good fun. We have to learn to laugh at ourselves.
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Flazz said 12:17PM on 12-06-2007
Get it... IE8=I Eight=I Ate
oo bill gates ur hilarious
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iamhoff said 12:20PM on 12-06-2007
"IE Desktop Online Web Browser Live Professional Ultimate Edition for the Internet." I just want to know when the SP2 version drops.
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Zelidar said 1:00PM on 12-06-2007
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!
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Kevin said 10:01PM on 12-06-2007
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?
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mgthantzin said 1:44AM on 12-07-2007
Microsoft Windows Internet Explorer 8 Home Basic Edition
Note: Home Basic Version disallows you Internet access. :)
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David said 5:26AM on 12-29-2007
So does Internet Explorer!
Dave Forster said 5:47AM on 12-07-2007
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!
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drhowarddrfine said 12:10AM on 12-17-2007
"...but then we realized that it might have been a joke."
Yes, you are right. All versions of IE are a joke.
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David said 5:22AM on 12-29-2007
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!
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