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IE7 Announced for Longhorn and WinXP

Posted by Zonk on from the coming-soon-to-a-pc-near-you! dept.

sriram_2001 writes "There is now an official announcement from Bill Gates on Internet Explorer 7. It will be available in beta form this summer for Longhorn and XP SP2. The IEBlog has commentary about the decision making process that went into the new browser version." Coming on the heels of the June Beta announcement for Longhorn, if things go as planned it will likely be here in early summer. The new browser's early arrival was first discussed last year.

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  1. Re:I wonder what MS has stolen from firefox by It'sYerMam · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Personally, I expect they'll include seriously botched tabs with an extra dosing of crankiness. In this case, I'd have every right to be pissed off with them.
    If they did it right? Well, I guess I'd still be pissed off. Less so, but pissed off in a general "you're an asshole of a company" and "it took you long enough" kind of way.

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  2. Re:I wonder what MS has stolen from firefox by dustmite · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Microsoft just can't win with you idiots

    Uh ... maybe if they actually came up with some ideas of their own for a change? Think you missed the point. Because all they ever do is copy. (In fact it's extremely difficult to think of any worthy ideas in computing that MS have come up with that everyone else 'followed' by copying, and for a software company of that size and which has spent so much on R&D, and with a founder who consistently touts himself as some sort of innovative visionary in the media, that is incredibly remarkable.)