Although Microsoft's Internet Explorer team has just shipped version 7 of the browser, it is already working on IE 8--or should that be "IE Next?"--said a platform architect on the team. At the AJAX Experience conference, Chris Wilson, platform architect for the Internet Explorer platform at Microsoft, said, "The team is hard at work on IE 8," then with a smile added, "I think I am supposed to call it IE Next." peaking on the issue at hand for the conference--AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML--Wilson said, "IE 7 does more than just fix very minor features; <A HREF="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2041248,00.asp?kc=EWNAVEMNL102706EOAD">it makes AJAX fun to develop."</A>