MSIE 7 May Beat Longhorn Out The Gate

Quantum Jim writes "InternetNews.com reports that a major upgrade for Microsoft Internet Explorer may be imminent. Apparently in response to the recent mass migration away from MSIE, top Microsoft developers have been soliciting for improvements in the old browser at a web log and at Channel 9, an aggregate journal previously discussed by /.. InternetNews.com speculates that improvements could possibly include support for tabbed browsing, better security, more PNG and CSS compliance, and RSS integration (which Firefox and Opera Mail already support). Go competition!"

Comments

Secret to the fast release revealed!

[Anonymous Coward]

It will be based on the Mozilla source!

Yeah

[stecoop]

MSIE 7 May Beat Longhorn Out The Gate... But I use Mozilla and the bell rang a long time ago.

Re:Yeah

[Rasta Prefect]

I'm not sure why some enterprising mozilla/firefox nut hasn't made an activex plug-in for IE that causes the browser to render all pages using a "gecko plug-in". For example, if I came to slashdot (using IE like I normally do) and the page prompted me to install the "Gecko HTML rendering engine", I'd do it. Just like all those the masses that install spyware because they don't know any better.

I'm amazed I never thought of this. This would be _far_ less work than messing with CSS2 until it works in IE.

How is this possible?!?!?

[jjh37997]

I thought IE and the Window OS were so tightly integrated that they were virtually the same thing? Do you mean IE was actually a separate program all along?

Re:Browser Wars II: Mozilla Strikes Back?

[Anonymous Coward]

And so at last the beast fell and the unbelievers rejoiced. But all was not lost, for from the ash rose a great bird. The bird gazed down upon the unbelievers and cast fire and thunder upon them. For the beast had been reborn with its strength renewed, and the followers of Mammon cowered in horror.

from The Book of Mozilla, 7:15

Re:And the standings are....

[foidulus]

My prediction: lynx will make a comeback and overtake them all!

Marketing won't like this...

[rsilvergun]

Since they integrated it, upgrades to IE become upgrades to the OS. I'm sure marketing would much rather hold out till longhorn hits. It'd make thier job of selling a bloated, complex upgrade that much easier. I tell you, I wouldn't want to be the guy who had to come up with reasons why you should upgrade to Windows ME.

Re:Call Me Clueless

[boredMDer]

'Anyone who uses Internet Explorer is using Windows'

blanquita:~ pmohr$ uname -a
Darwin blanquita.local 7.4.0 Darwin Kernel Version 7.4.0: Wed May 12 16:58:24 PDT 2004; root:xnu/xnu-517.7.7.obj~7/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh powerpc

blanquita:~ pmohr$ ls -l /Applications/|grep Internet\ Explorer
drwxrwxr-x 3 root admin 102 31 Jul 21:44 Internet Explorer.app

Hmm?

Re:Call Me Clueless

[kikta]

[kiktajm@devildog2 bin]$ uname -a
Linux devildog2 2.6.5-7.104-default #1 Wed Jul 28 16:42:13 UTC 2004 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

[kiktajm@devildog2 bin]$ ll Iexplorer
lrwxrwxrwx 1 kiktajm users 9 2004-08-09 02:16 Iexplorer -> /dev/null

I crack me up...

Re:OT: spreading FUD

[Refrag]

"If Doom 3 is so important to you, please pay for it, ID software will have more money, they will spend it, butterfly-effect."

Exactly. John Carmack will buy a new Ferrari. One of the Ferrari factory workers will get a bonus and decide to strike out on his own pizza shop. A business man from America will happen upon his shop while on vacation and persuade him to bring his pizza to America and start a new franchise. Enzo Pizza will invade the market with a higher quality, lower price pizza that will enliven competition in the pizza delivery market. A younger gamer playing at a Doom 3 LAN party will order one of these pizzas while saving $1.73 over the pizza he would have bought from Papa Johns.

Everyone wins.