by admin at Tuesday, January 01, 2008 in Microsoft
Tags: Internet Explorer, Microsoft, Web Browser
Breaking a long silence, Microsoft has finally started throwing light beams on its future version of “Internet Explorer 8”. The company says it has plans to launch a beta version of the Web browser for users sometime during the first half of 2008.
Internet Explorer 7 was released in October 2006. There has been a lot of criticism of Microsoft that it has been too quiet about its future plans for the market-leading browser. Dean Hachamovitch, Microsoft ‘s General Manager for Internet Explorer, was also keeping mum in his blog for a long time until he wrote a post this month that revealed only that the next version would be called Internet Explorer 8.
Microsoft Chairman Bill gates had to mollify his concerns in an interview with bloggers last month, a transcript of which was posted online. He commented about the company’s openness about IE8. “I’ll have to ask Dean what the hell is going on. There’s not like some deep secret about what we’re doing with IE.”