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IE7 Released and Available for Download

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the here-it-is dept.

Luis Escalante writes "After over a year and a half, IE7 has been released to the public as of Monday afternoon. Download it directly here. Word hit the streets after several mangers of the IE division posted on the IE blog."

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  1. Subtle Naming changes by Chapium · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Did anyone notice its Windows Internet Explorer 7 and not Microsoft Internet Explorer 7?

  2. Re:"funny" but true by compupc1 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    IE 7 is actually less integrated than IE 6 was. However, the IE rendering engine is provided as a library for other applications to use. Any other applications that have embedded browser controls depend on IE -- and as they should. Applications should not have to deal with HTML rendering on their own. I would imagine this would cover everything from help systems to chat clients to things like the Add/Remove programs dialog.

    Since other browsers don't come pre-installed on Windows computers, IE tends to be a neccesity (whether Windows should make it easier for applications to rely on other 3rd party browsers is a separate issue). As such, a system reboot is neccesary as the rendering engine itself, exposed as a library, must be updated. Basically it just ensures nothing is using the browser control at the time of update.

    --
    -James
  3. 10 Minutes from Installation to UnInstallation by wjramsey · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Here's my experience:
    1) Install IE7 since it's out of beta - downloads and installs in about 2 minutes.
    2) Reboot PC - 1 minute
    3) Enable menu bar - 2 minutes trying to get it to move to the top. Nope
    4) Try to change search engine to Altavista - 2 minutes - exception thrown just typing a letter in the search menu.
    5) Remove IE7 - 2 minutes
    6) Reboot - 1 minute

    (I guess I might have also added the about 5 minutes svchost ran my cpu to 100% after the first reboot)

    How horrible..... :(