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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.

3 of 755 comments (clear)

  1. Re:I wonder what MS has stolen from firefox by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Opera had tabs before Firefox did. Also mouse gestures.

  2. Re:I wonder what MS has stolen from firefox by Rude+Turnip · · Score: 5, Informative

    Tabs go back to the 1980s...spreadsheets had them first. Putting them in a web browser isn't an innovation, it's an evolution.

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  3. Proof that Opera had it before Galeon by ex-geek · · Score: 5, Informative
    According to Wikipedia, Opera added tabbed browsing in Version 4 in March 2000.

    The changelog of galeon reads:
    2000-12-29 Matt Aubury <matt@ookypooky.com>

    * src/browser.c
    * src/browser_callbacks.c
    * src/galeon.h
    * src/portal.c
    * src/prefs.c
    * ui/galeon.glade: VERY early code for tabbed browsing. It doesn't
    work right at all yet, but it's a start
    NetCaptor was the first browser according to the Wikipedia article.