Posted on 01/31/2006 10:39:29 AM PST by Terpfen
Microsoft plans to take the wraps off Internet Explorer 7 on Tuesday, releasing the new "preview" version of its Web browser to the general public for testing.
The program, still a work in progress, will be available shortly for download from the Internet Explorer section of Microsoft's corporate Web site, the company said. The company, which began limited testing in July, had promised to deliver a public beta by the end of March.
"The big update is that it's public," said Margaret Cobb, group product manager for Internet Explorer at Microsoft. "All previous releases were limited."
The latest version works only with Windows XP Service Pack 2 and includes many of the features Microsoft has been touting for months. Among them are new security and privacy protection capabilities such as mechanisms designed to combat phishing attacks, spyware and other threats.
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Microsoft is busy checking the Mozilla websute to see if there are any new ideas they can incorporate into IE.
Still slow.
After previewing IE7 and seeing the direction Microsoft is going, especially with that tedious UI I decided to download and try Firefox. It was the best thing that could have happened, now I'm never going back to IE.
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