masakunの日記: Internet Explorer 8 が2008年終わりか2009年リリース?
“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 and Ie2.079 (we might still use this for the Math Major Edition),” Hachamovitch revealed.
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But still, at this point in time, all that Microsoft talked about was the fact that IE8 would succeed IE7. And nothing else. The company revealed after the release of IE7 that future versions of the browser would follow in no more than two tear time frames. In this context, IE8 will not drop any sooner than the end of 2008 or even early 2009. In the meantime, Mozilla has reached Beta 1 stage with Firefox 3.0 and is moving ahead into Beta 2 by the end of this month. In comparison, Microsoft is still not ready to breath any additional details about IE8.
【追記】PC Plus - Microsoft IE8 trial coming soon
Internet Explorer 8 will be released as a beta test version later this year, according to a Microsoft source. Windows XP is apparently included in the plans for the new web browser.
Few details are known about the forthcoming version 8 of Internet Explorer . But sources are now saying it will be released for testing after Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is made available. The release date of the latter has been put back to later this year, TheHotfix reports.
Windows Vista SP1 がリリースされた後、IE8 (β?)テスト版が出てくる見通しなのね。
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