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'Lower Rights' IE 7.0 Coming

Posted by timothy on

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."

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  1. They're adding IDN support NOW??? by bgarcia · · Score: 5, Funny
    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!

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  2. Multiple search engines! by grasshoppa · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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

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  3. Slow ears by KiloByte · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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    1. Re:Slow ears by edunbar93 · · Score: 3, Funny

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

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

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  4. Re:WHAT?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    architect IS NOT a verb!

    It's a perfectly cromulent word.

  5. no no no by hsmith · · Score: 4, Funny

    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

  6. Re:WHAT?? by Dorothy+86 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, but verbing nouns weirds the language.

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  7. Lower Rights For Everyone! by buckhead_buddy · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.

  8. Re:Appropriate for the largest audience by Mithrandir86 · · Score: 5, Funny
    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?

  9. Search choice? by RichM · · Score: 4, Funny

    "...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...