'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."

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Re:New Features?

[KiltedKnight]

It seems to me that Microsoft is only playing catch up, has invention died over in Redmond?

You're assuming that they ever had the ability to innovate there.

DOS was bought for them and given to them. Windows is because of Xerox PARC and because Jobs never believed Gates would decompile the Macs. IE was based on Mosaic and Netscape. The Office suite comes from any number of word processors, Lotus 1-2-3, and Harvard Graphics. SQL Server was based on Sybase (they had a joint venture for a while).

They have always been playing catch up out there, because when a product gets popular in-house and/or elsewhere, they have to try to make their own version of it.