Windows Longhorn and Internet Explorer 7

An anonymous reader writes "At Gnomedex this year, Microsoft is excited about the new RSS integration into Windows Longhorn and Internet Explorer 7. Screenshots of Internet Explorer 7 reveal how Microsoft has added a search tool to the top right of the browsing window similar to the one found in Safari/Firefox. Also, Microsoft revealed that RSS will be integrated into the heart of Longhorn."

Comments

Looks like FireFox

[ryg0r]

Maybe its just me. But it looks like FireFox with some Longhorn UI added. :P

Re:Looks like FireFox

[pdbaby]

It would be fair enough if they had an IE-only alternative for common web problems like rounded corners on things; it strikes me that the IE team are incredibly lazy - all they've managed to do is write an RSS reader and add tabs in how many years?

It's really odd, especially because they have stiff competition from Firefox. In Visual Studio, the competition from Eclipse and other free IDEs is showing: Visual Studio 2005 is a really smart, really well designed development environment.

Re:Looks like FireFox

[cortana]

Clarisworks/Appleworks changes menus and menuitems according to the type of the document that was focused. If no documents were open then the menu bar just had File/Edit/Help IIRC.

What's better than screen shots?

[HyperChicken]

Video: http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=8053 3

Re:Wow

[PoitNarf]

Perhaps if you only have 3 or 4 IE windows open at the same time I would agree with you. But when I do online shopping or something where I'm going to be looking at multiple pages on the same site, or perhaps I always want a tab with Slashdot open in it, tabs become much more convenient. Once you get used to them they are far easier to manage. I prefer a single instance in my taskbar with 10+ tabs open rather than 10+ instances in my taskar.

still two years behind

[fermion]

It would seem that after 10 years the richest software developer in the world would have caught up with the state of the art. I mean a search box? Is that the best they can do. I mean for those of us that have been browsing the internet for all that time, and a bit more, IE has always been the laughing stock. It is a very good application front end, a terminal really, but a horrible browser.

Which is realy not the fault fo the devolopers. I am sure they are very good. But when the goal is get and keep clients, and force is an option, one has a hard time justifing a customer centered approach to development. I mean it is kind of a waste of time to sweet talk a victim if you are just going to knock him out and take his money.

Re:Say "NO" to Bloatware

[Anti_Climax]

Well, they'll probably never give it to you, but you can definitely have it.

http://www.nliteos.com/nlite.html allows you to pull unwanted components from your windows install cd's, including media player, messenger and internet explorer. If you're so inclined I highly recommend making your own personalized install.

It also comes in particularly handy when you want to keep people from using IE after their machine gets hosed by malware.

As an aside, I find it much easier to just write the new install files into my CD image rather than burn a new one from folders on the disk and as a bonus the CD is typically smaller that way as well.

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Re:Say "NO" to Bloatware

[quarkscat]

"Has anyone suggested that Microsoft create 2 parallel operating systems: slimware version and bloatware version?"

Well, yes actually. Microsoft now offers the following "flavors" of Windows:

(1) Windows XP Home
(2) Windows XP Pro
(3) Windows XP Embedded
(4) Windows XP "Lite"
(5) Windows XP "Thin"
(6) Windows XP Home Theatre Edition
(7) Windows XP 64-bit Edition
(8) Windows XP N
(9) Windows CE

Pray tell, just which other version of Windows were you actually looking for, that MSFT doesn't already offer (except "Windows XP Secure")?
There are already more versions than you can shake a proverbial stick at, and all with varying levels of bloatware and also vulnerabilities. Pick your poison, and prepare to be "owned".

Re:Staring at the embers

[Anonymous Coward]

You might want to check out some Firefox extensions. There's some truly cool things happening there.

https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/?application =firefox

Re:Say "NO" to Bloatware

[oddfox]

A gig of RAM but what are the other specs if your system is -that- slow? From the sounds of things it's a sub-500MHz box, maybe even worse. This goes for whether you're talking about Windows XP or any Linux distribution worth beans.

Re:oh yeah firefox invented top right search uh hu

[oSand]

Actually, tabbed browsing was first appeared in Booklink's InternetWorks.

Why wait for Longhorn?

[hermank]

I am not talking to the release date of Longhorn. I am talking on the performance of applications on Longhorn.

I am working on a computational intensive problem. With linux I can install ONLY the functions I need. I can even stop and uninstall all server to free memory and diskspace and make my program run faster.

I really dont want to wait for my program fighting for getting more resources against some funny kernel extension like web access and RSS, which cannot be stopped.

Maybe Microsoft have no interest on scientific arena, but, as the OS getting
more bulky and inflexable, I serious doubt if Windows platform can survive apart from desktop and gamming.