'Lower Rights' IE 7.0 Coming

blacktop writes "eWeek has official confirmation from a Microsoft vice president that the upcoming Internet Explorer 7.0 browser upgrade will ship with reduced privilege mode turned on by default to help thwart browser-based attacks. In addition to anti-phishing and anti-spoofing features, IE 7.0 will add support for IDN (International Domain Names), built-in RSS and seamless search that will include choices of search providers."

Comments

They're adding IDN support NOW???

[bgarcia]

IE 7.0 will add support for IDN (International Domain Names)

Oh, goodie!

I was wondering when IE would be able to support the Unicode URL spoofing attacks!

Multiple search engines!

[grasshoppa]

You can use msn! Or, maybe you'd prefer msn!

Or, if those two options don't suit you, you can use MSN!

Re:WHAT??

[Linker3000]

Just be glad he didn't say "re-architized".

Slow ears

[KiloByte]

From TFA: "Nine months ago, we started hearing from partners like Dell that spyware was a major issue."

Hmm, let's see. (5 years-9 months) times the speed of sound... this means that Dell's headquarters are 46 million kilometers from Redmond.

Re:Slow ears

[edunbar93]

this means that Dell's headquarters are 46 million kilometers from Redmond.

I always knew that Redmond was on another planet...

Re:WHAT??

[Anonymous Coward]

architect IS NOT a verb!

It's a perfectly cromulent word.

no no no

[hsmith]

when you type in "google" Clippy pops up and asks you "It looks like you want to do a search, we will take you to a far superior search engine" and will redirect you

Re:So basically ...

[Schnapple]

So yes they implement security but only when someone else points out that over 25% of all computers are infected with malware. Obviously this new Security concious microsoft takes some time to believe thaty they may be wrong... enjoy

What percentage would you like it to hit before they do something?

Re:WHAT??

[Dorothy 86]

Yeah, but verbing nouns weirds the language.

Lower Rights For Everyone!

[buckhead_buddy]

Recently, Microsoft already lowered the rights of gays and lesbians by dropping support for a major state anti-discrimination bill. Based on that wildly popular success (with right wingers at least) we'll be dropping the rights for everyone in the next release of Internet Explorer; trust us, we know what's good for you. And for those anxious about what the future holds, worry no more; coming with Longhorn, we'll offer new digital rights management features. Just remember, all your rights are belong to us.

But it will have tabs!

[Joe Jarvis]

I can picture the yellow tooltip now.

Internet Explorer blocked access to the following potentially unsafe websites: The Internet.

Re:Re-architected it?

[Medel]

Perhaps, "We copied someone else's exploit defenses"

Re:Appropriate for the largest audience

[Mithrandir86]

Crap, I forgot about posting against the /. articles of faith and got modded a troll.

Just a second.

Greedy M$ is making another foolish move. Hopefully they'll be bankrupt soon. All corporations are inherently evil. Linux forever!

Was that better?

Re:Appropriate for the largest audience

[gearmonger]

Microsoft may be a bit slow to get there, but they'll get there in the end.

Ahem, yes, I've felt them get there many a time and not even K-Y Jelly helps any more.

Re:New Features?

[isotropique]

> Why would people move back to IE even after the
> release of IE7?

Simply because Microsoft will put back IE as the default browser after the upgrade.

Search choice?

[RichM]

"...and seamless search that will include choices of search providers."

MSN.com
MSN.co.uk
MSN.co.fr
MSN.co.de
MSN.co.kr
MSN.co.ie
MSN.co.jp
and so on...