IE7 released

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2006-10-19 10:01am

IEBlog wrote:
Today we released Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP. I encourage everyone to download the final version from http://www.microsoft.com/ie.

We listened carefully to feedback from many sources (including this blog) and worked hard to deliver a safer browser that makes everyday tasks easier. When I first posted publicly about IE7, I wrote that we would go further to defend users from phishing and malicious software. The Phishing Filter and the architectural work in IE7 around networking and ActiveX opt-in will help keep users more secure. IE7 also delivers a much easier browsing experience with features like tabbed browsing (especially with QuickTabs), shrink-to-fit printing, an easily customizable search box, and a new design that leaves more screen real estate for the web site you’re viewing. IE7’s CSS improvements are incredibly important for developers as many of you have made quite clear. I also think IE7’s RSS experience and platform are important, powerful, and innovative.

In addition to our release of IE7, Yahoo! has a customized version of the browser available today and over the next few days partners such as Weather.com and USA TODAY will offer their own customized versions. These versions will tailor the user experience with specific toolbars, additional search engines, favorites, and RSS feeds.

I want to thank everyone who provided feedback as we developed and fine-tuned Internet Explorer 7. Over the 20 months since Bill Gates first announced our commitment to deliver IE7, we released five betas and a release candidate to millions of users worldwide. With each release, your feedback helped us make IE7 better. Your contributions, ideas, and direct comments were crucial in helping us prioritize and focus our work. I can’t imagine delivering this product without the tremendous cooperation we enjoyed from so many of you as well as developers and partners.

That said, we’re not done. Even as we put the finishing touches on Windows Vista and release all the remaining language versions of IE7, we have already started work on the next versions of Internet Explorer. We’ll post more here soon about our plans for the product and our plans for listening to you.

Thanks,

Dean Hachamovitch
General Manager

Ace Pace · Post by **Ace Pace** » 2006-10-19 10:11am

I love IE7 so far, though I've been hearing abit on crashs with the latest version, so I'll wait a few days before upgrading.

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2006-10-19 10:36am

Hmm. Do you actually need SP2 to run it like they say?

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2006-10-19 10:42am

neoolong wrote:Hmm. Do you actually need SP2 to run it like they say?

Yes.

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2006-10-19 11:26am

Nice, but I don't think that's enough to get me to switch from Opera or Firefox.

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2006-10-19 11:36am

IE is going to need serious rebranding, and Firefox some serious suckitude it currently doesn't have before I switch back...

EDIT: Damn typodemon.

Mange · Post by **Mange** » 2006-10-19 12:32pm

I've no plans to switch over to IE7, but does it run in a sandbox?

Sharp-kun · Post by **Sharp-kun** » 2006-10-19 02:31pm

neoolong wrote:Hmm. Do you actually need SP2 to run it like they say?

Why wouldn't you have SP2?

Ace Pace · Post by **Ace Pace** » 2006-10-19 03:19pm

Einhander Sn0m4n wrote:IE is going to need serious rebranding, and Firefox some serious suckitude it currently doesn't have before I switch back...

EDIT: Damn typodemon.

Just try out IE7, no need for FF.

Master of Ossus · Post by **Master of Ossus** » 2006-10-19 03:22pm

Einhander Sn0m4n wrote:IE is going to need serious rebranding, and Firefox some serious suckitude it currently doesn't have before I switch back...

EDIT: Damn typodemon.

That wouldn't have happened if you had used IE7's spell-checker.

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2006-10-19 03:37pm

Master of Ossus wrote:
Einhander Sn0m4n wrote:IE is going to need serious rebranding, and Firefox some serious suckitude it currently doesn't have before I switch back...

EDIT: Damn typodemon.
That wouldn't have happened if you had used IE7's spell-checker.

My Firefox 2 on Ubuntu Edgy has a spellchecker

Genii Lodus · Post by **Genii Lodus** » 2006-10-19 04:57pm

Hmm very odd, went to download it and Avast warned me that a virus was trying to download itself. killed that donload then manually clicked download for no problem. Anybody else have anything like that happen to them, Avast claimed the virus was trying to downloard from rad.microsoft.com.

Faram · Post by **Faram** » 2006-10-19 04:58pm

Well so far I like it, but the extensions for FF makes it my first choise.

And no D/L link?

www.microsoft.com/ie

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2006-10-19 05:00pm

Faram wrote:Well so far I like it, but the extensions for FF makes it my first choise.

And no D/L link?

www.microsoft.com/ie

You mean the one in the quote I had in the OP? :p

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2006-10-19 05:34pm

Ace Pace wrote:Just try out IE7, no need for FF.

Sorry, I'm not 'defaulting to IE'. They have to actually make me want to change back, and I'm not impressed.

bilateralrope · Post by **bilateralrope** » 2006-10-19 05:58pm

The Register claims that an information disclosure vulnerability has already been found with IE7. It doesn't seem to be that bad a security issue.

At this stage I haven't heard of anything in IE7 that I would use, that Firefox doesn't already have. So I'm staying with Firefox till I hear of one, but I dont care enough to actually go looking.

Glocksman · Post by **Glocksman** » 2006-10-19 07:12pm

I already don't like it because it insists on adding the Adobe PDF Creator plugin button on a separate toolbar and it won't let me drag it to an existing toolbar nor drag an existing bar onto it.

I like 2 levels of toolbars/address bar/whathaveyou.
Not 3, especially when the third one has a single button on it.
That's a waste of screen space and just looks fugly.

Is there a way to uninstall this ugly POS and go back to 6?
Added: I ran system restore and it worked.

ThatGuyFromThatPlace · Post by **ThatGuyFromThatPlace** » 2006-10-19 08:29pm

I tried it, its allright but I felt naked online without all my extensions. SOme of the IE7 tabbing functionality is pretty cool but it seems to me that opening an IE tab is a bigger hit to my system than opening an FF tab (probably not but it seems like it takes longer to load than it should and slows everythind down while doing so).

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2006-10-19 09:52pm

IE7 also fixes many of the CSS and DOM issues that plagued IE6 and is also more hardened.

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2006-10-19 10:13pm

Sharp-kun wrote:
neoolong wrote:Hmm. Do you actually need SP2 to run it like they say?
Why wouldn't you have SP2?

My current internet access for some reason always cuts off when I try to download it. It does that on quite a few things I tried to download.

pieman3141 · Post by **pieman3141** » 2006-10-20 09:47pm

This would affect us hardcore Firefox (or any open-source browser) users... how?

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2006-10-20 10:14pm

"Bigot"? Because he's not very open-minded about web browsers?

Over-dramatize much?

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2006-10-20 10:41pm

Destructionator XIII wrote:Let's see, what is a bigot. According to Webster: " a person obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudice"

Over-dramatic maybe, but if the word fits.

No, it doesn't, because "bigot" carries connotation that, despite whatever Webster says, go way beyond having a preference for a particular web browser, even an irrational one. Bigots burn crosses, not make snide remarks about Microsoft products.

bilateralrope · Post by **bilateralrope** » 2006-10-20 11:51pm

pieman3141 wrote:This would affect us hardcore Firefox (or any open-source browser) users... how?

Because IE now supports tabbed browsing, we might se a reduction in sites that use things like javascript links which don't allow you to open a link in a new tab.

If the security is improved enough we should see a reduction in the number of computers zombified through IE, meaning less zombie machines to be used for spam or DDOSing.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2006-10-21 12:59am

Destructionator XIII wrote:Let's see, what is a bigot. According to Webster: " a person obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudice"

Over-dramatic maybe, but if the word fits.

Leaving aside Red's point about the social connotations of the word, I don't think it even fits. "Prejudice" and "intolerance" are terms which imply that you are talking about people, not products. The way you define the term, somebody who likes Coca-Cola and refuses to change his mind is a bigot. You also conveniently quoted only part of the Webster's definition. From the m-w.com website:

Webster wrote:bigot: a person obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices; especially : one who regards or treats the members of a group (as a racial or ethnic group) with hatred and intolerance.

The second part of the definition is there in order to clarify the ambiguities in the first part which you are taking advantage of.