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posted by LaminatorX on Monday August 18 2014, @09:47PM   Printer-friendly
from the not-your-father's-Oldsmobile dept.

For the last few years, Microsoft has tried to separate the modern version of Internet Explorer from its legacy: a relatively slow, insecure browser saddled with proprietary features. Now Mark Hachman reports at PC World that as recently as a few weeks ago, members of the Internet Explorer development team debated renaming the browser, presumably in an effort to eliminate any distaste from the software's earliest days. According to one member of the Explorer Develop Group during an AMA on Reddit: "It's been suggested internally; I remember a particularly long email thread where numerous people were passionately debating it. Plenty of ideas get kicked around about how we can separate ourselves from negative perceptions that no longer reflect our product today," wrote Jonathon Sampson. "The discussion I recall seeing was a very recent one (just a few weeks ago). Who knows what the future holds :)"

 
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  • (Score: 2) by aristarchus on Monday August 18 2014, @10:08PM

    by aristarchus (2645) on Monday August 18 2014, @10:08PM (#82785) Journal

    "The browser formerly know as 'IE'"

    "Not-blue Screen of Death"

    "Farefox"

    But until Microsoft can produce a browser that can stand alone from the operating system (do they dare? Has the statute of limitations expired?), we will just have to keep calling it :
    "Windows"

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  • (Score: 2) by acid andy on Monday August 18 2014, @10:28PM

    by acid andy (1683) on Monday August 18 2014, @10:28PM (#82793) Homepage Journal

    DINIE (I'll let you work it out ;) )
    Or DISIE where the 'S' is for 'still'

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    If a cat has kittens, does a rat have rittens, a bat bittens and a mat mittens?
    • (Score: 2) by acid andy on Monday August 18 2014, @10:30PM

      by acid andy (1683) on Monday August 18 2014, @10:30PM (#82795) Homepage Journal

      Actually SISIE works even better.

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      If a cat has kittens, does a rat have rittens, a bat bittens and a mat mittens?
  • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Monday August 18 2014, @11:26PM

    by kaszz (4211) on Monday August 18 2014, @11:26PM (#82819) Journal

    Invasive Expl0it

    Sounds like a disease that must be put under strict CDC control. :P

    OR..

    Imbreeded Excrements from Microsoft MBA team.

    (I'm not nice to Microsoft, no, but their favors are just returned)