Second IE7 beta release
p2p news / p2pnet: Microsoft has released a revised test version of Internet Explorer 7 (IE 7) with free telephone support in the US, Germany and Japan.
"Microsoft is facing growing competition from browsers such as Firefox which already offer advanced functions such as tabbed browsing," says the BBC.
"We waited too long for a browser release," Bill Gates recently admitted, speaking of delays between major releases, the last coming in 2001 with IE 6.
Meanwhile, the new version, "addresses some problems affecting banking and news sites," says the story. It’s also designed, "to be more secure than the current version, with built-in protection against malicious software and online phishing scams".
The IE 7 beta, "contains all of the features Microsoft plans for the final release of the software later this year. Version 7 includes the ability to browse the Web using tabs, new technology for printing Web pages more faithfully, support for RSS feeds, and a new warning system that can flag dangerous Web sites to users," says InformationWeek.
Also See:
BBC – Microsoft expands browser testing, April 25, 2006
speaking of delays – Gates: ‘We waited too long’, March 21, 2006
InformationWeek – Microsoft Releases Second Internet Explorer 7 Beta, March 25, 2006
