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

Why does MS still care?

[IvyMike]

I don't understand why Microsoft cares about the browser wars anymore. IE development costs them money, and I don't see what the benefit is.

I mean, back in the day, I used to think that the scenario was, "IE will be so much better than Netscape that websites and web users will flock to it, thus furthering our Windows monopoly." But that scenario seems pretty far-fetched today; Netscape the company is gone, and nobody choses Windows because they like IE.

At some point, it looked like MS had just abandoned IE development, but what's the case for picking it back up?

Re:Browser Wars II: Mozilla Strikes Back?

[ralphart]

"You can't win, Bill. If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine"

Re:Secret to the fast release revealed!

[tarunthegreat2]

Dude, everything is in relative terms, there is no absolute truth...I mean IE7 will be released at the speed of light compared to Duke Nukem Forever.....

How many times do I have to say sorry!!!

[Quantum Jim]

Really, why do Slashdot story submitters have to have such completely and deliberately inaccurate stories? It *sucks*. I'd happily add a day or whatever on to the time until a story comes out if the eds would just read the linked to article on each story that they actually pass.

I already posted an admission (P.S. why was that moderated funny?) that my original link for "recent mass migration away from MSIE" should have referenced a different article (although that one has a typo). I goofed; I'm sorry!

I don't like IE either, but come on. There is no "recent mass migration."

I think the tiny grain of truth somewhere was that the current version of IE actually saw a market share decrease last month instead of an increase.

And by "mass", I wasn't implying "majority". I agree that the market share decrease was small; however, the absolute number of switchers was very large compared with Mozilla.org's historical conversion rate. Hence, the adjective, "mass".