Hachamovitch: Please don't mistake silence for inaction
 

Dean Hachamovitch has posted an update on the IE Team Blog in reaction to Bill Gates mentioning IE8 at the Mix ‘n Mash event on the Redmond campus yesterday. Bill was talking to some bloggers about IE.Next and called it IE8.

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 ;-)

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