Internet Explorer 8 is coming
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Microsoft drops hints about Internet Explorer 8
By Jeremy Reimer | Published: May 02, 2007 - 11:54AM CT
At the Mix'07 conference in Las Vegas—Microsoft's annual event for web designers and developers—the spotlight has largely been on Microsoft's Silverlight platform, formerly known as Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere. Silverlight is a set of tools for developing rich, Flash-like web applications. Less talk has focused around the web browser that will provide the primary user interface for all this new technology. On the Internet Explorer blog, Chris Wilson hinted at some of the things that might be coming in IE 8, while declining to give specific details.
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While details may be lacking, the structure of the conferences planned for Mix'07 gives a few hints. Improvements in RSS, CSS, and AJAX support are all being given high priority. It is also widely speculated that IE 8 will include support for microformats, small tags embedded in HTML code that can be interpreted in various ways by software, such as calendar events or contact information. Microformat support is scheduled for Firefox 3, so IE 8 will have to include them in order to keep up. The new version may also include more options for user interface customization, as that was one of the biggest criticisms of IE 7, and one which the developers often blamed on lack of time.
The fact that there will be an IE 8 at all is a testament to the fact that the web browser market has become competitive again. When IE 6 finally vanquished Netscape, the team that created Microsoft's browser was largely thrown to the winds, and development slowed to a crawl. It took Firefox gaining a ten percent market share to cause Microsoft to respond with IE 7.
Despite continued criticism over the slow development of IE 7, it is clear that Microsoft isn't ignoring the browser any more. A timeline for the release of IE 8 isn't available yet, but Microsoft is hinting that there will be at least another year of development, which would make it approximately 18 months after the release of IE 7. Microsoft isn't currently planning any interim releases, such as 7.1 or 7.5, but the browser does continue to be updated with bugfixes and security patches through Windows Update.
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Microsoft hints at general plan for IE 8
Internet Explorer 8, due within the next 18 months, will keep focus on security, ease of use and include Web development improvements.
By Martin LaMonica
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
Published: May 3, 2007, 3:21 PM PDT
Microsoft will continue to prioritize security and ease of use in the forthcoming Internet Explorer 8 and will seek to improve Web development with current standards compatibility, according to the company.
At Microsoft's Mix '07 conference in Las Vegas this week, IE platform architect Chris Wilson recapped Microsoft's development priorities in the making of Internet Explorer (IE) 7 and outlined some of its goals for the next version of its browser.
Wilson said Microsoft intends to create a follow-on version, IE 8, within two years of IE 7's release, which came out in October.
The priorities Microsoft set for IE 7, Wilson said, are the same for IE 8: strong security, ease of use and Web development improvements.
"It's clear we have a lot to do with the Web developer platform," he said addressing an audience of mostly Web developers at Mix.
Specifically, he said Microsoft will invest more in layout and adhering to the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) 2.1 specifications. He also said Microsoft wants to make its browser object model more interoperable "to make it easier to work with other browsers and allow more flexible programming patterns."
In addition, he said the Ajax Web programming style needs more client-side application programming interfaces to allow developers to create more powerful applications.
"There's work in the standardization bodies to do local storage and get better security models," Wilson said, adding that Microsoft is working with the W3C on standardizing HTML version 5 and XHTML version 1 and 1.1.
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He said adherence to standards is increasingly important to Web site developers but Microsoft is in a "challenging" position as it introduces more standards compliance.
Because previous versions of Internet Explorer strayed from standards, new versions of Internet Explorer, such as IE 7, have caused some Web sites to not work for end users, he said.
"Web development compatibility is really crucial for building applications and...for us to deploy browsers (but) it has to be an evolutionary step," he said, noting that half a billion people use some version of Internet Explorer. "If we say, 'Here is your new browser--it's standards compatible,' we actually disrupt the existing ecosystem and it doesn't actually make it better for anyone.
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October 26th, 2006
IE8 already, more Vista delays, big holiday gadget budgets, WinTel/AppTel to usurp living rooms, and Zillow under the tree?
IE8 already? Internet Explorer 7 is hardly out the door (in fact, Secunia has already found a second vulnerability in the newly-released browser) and Microsoft is already dropping hints about IE8, also known as IE Next, according to Mary Jo Foley.With IE 7 finally out the door, Microsoft has begun sharing some hints about IE 8.0, also known as IE Next. Chris Wilson, the newly minted platform architect for IE, addressed the Ajax Experience crowd this week and presented some of his thinking on what matters for the Web, going forward.
Microsoft also has its sites set on more near term stuff. For example, getting Vista out the door. Apparently, there's a new flaw in the release candidate of Vista that crashes the operating system so badly that it has to be reinstalled. ComputerWorld is reporting that the bug has caused Microsoft to delay Vista's release to manufacturing (RTM) until November 8. The continued delays have caused Microsoft to issue upgrade coupons to holiday system buyers. But regarding those coupons, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes says "Microsoft has taken what should be relatively easy and made it far too complicated by handing too much control over to the PC vendors (a list which includes Acer, Dell, Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, Sony, Toshiba …)."
With the holiday season already here, Ed Bott asks "Who’s got the best seat in the digital living room? Bott says (and I agree) that a lot of hardware and software companies, including Microsoft, are betting big bucks that they can take over the living room and be your hub for digital media. Just yesterday, I was having this discussion with someone else.
The three companies most focused on this goal — because it probably represents the hottest growth area for them — are Microsoft, Apple, and their primary hardware backer Intel. All three are deadset on moving in on the household names that have traditionally "owned" the home entertainment center. What's their secret weapon? Their proprietary digital rights management technologies. As people acquire more of their content (video and audio) from sources like the iTunes Music Store (iTMS) that only serve up copy-protected versions of that content, the merchants who run those sources (like Apple and Microsoft) get to decide where that content will work, and where it won't. It's no coincidence that Apple's forthcoming iTV can playback iTMS-purchased content while a Motorola set-top box (or any of the other gear in your home entertainment center) can't. My problem? Computing gear has never been very good at hardcore audiophile stuff like amplification and it probably never will (or your computer will wiegh about 150 pounds).
Speaking of the holidays, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes points out that we'll be parting with about $21 billion over the next few months and that the average consumer will drop $195 on consumer electronics alone. Of course, you and I not average. What’s on your holiday wish list? I want a pair of bluetooth enabled Oakley's with interchangeable Rx lenses. How does what you want compare with what other people are most likely to buy?
Another question: Where will you be doing most of your buying? Within the next few weeks, I'm relatively certain the boxes from Amazon (the ones I have to cut down to size for recycling) are going to start showing up. That's where my wife does most of her holiday shopping. But Donna Bogatin points out that prying eyes are trying to unlock the secrets of successful outfits like Amazon. She says the commerce giant wants to stop Google's mission to snare direct competitors into revealing confidential, proprietary details of competitive operations to the "do no evil" Google.
Meanwhile, Russell Shaw thinks that Zillow (yes, the entire company) is going to end up under someone's Christmas tree on relatively short order. Russell notes that there are several likely suitors of the red-hot real-estate information site and points out which of them would make for a perfect marriage. Can you guess (Hint: It's not eBay or Amazon.)
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04-07-2007, 11:25 PM
............. looks like MS is preparing for another round of browser war haha
newer versions are never stopped.
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