Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 Preview

[Clark Gilbert]

Thought I would point out that IE7 Beta Preview 2 is available for download from Microsoft (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/ie7/ie7betaredirect.mspx) .Overall the browser seems to be a lot better than IE6 and the addition of tabbed browsing is nice. Once the final version is released I still don't think I'll be switching over from Opera, but once Vista is released its version might be worth it.

http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~cagilber/files/Images/ie7thumb.jpg (http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~cagilber/files/Images/ie7large.jpg)
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[Mike Schroeder]

it just looks like firefox.... with an IE logo....

[Some Random Guy]

it just looks like firefox.... with an IE logo....
My thoughts exactly. Mozilla should sue.

[Andrew Blair]

Ahhhh!!!! I'm very cautious about acepting beta software from Microsoft. It seems to be very buggy in annoying ways. Their beta visual studio really screwed up my computer when I tried to uninstall it. But who knows, maybe the IE team is a little more on their feet. Looks like an attractive interface though.

[Ian Curtis]

Isn't good engineering stealing from the best, and inventing the rest? Oh, now I see it, Microsoft didn't invent anything. :eek: Shows ya' how powerful the Open Source part of the sofware world is. :rolleyes:

[VEN]

I had this thing for a while now....only advantage...im not used to using mozilla and i always use IE so when is use 7 its like using mozilla...but its true...total ripoff

[Mike]

My thoughts exactly. Mozilla should sue.
If Mozilla sues Microsoft, I hope Opera sues Mozilla.

[Michelle Celio]

It looks like it's going to blend in just fine when Microsoft releases Windows longhorn...errr I mean Vista.


It's got that whole "Candy Jewl" look to it.


I think I'll stay with my good 'ol FireFox.

[akedomakona]

same, fire fox rule's, and it has an amazing amount of plugins.

[Conor Ryan]

tabbed browsing interfaces all look the same. Yeah no variety what so ever.

I tried IE 7 beta 2 as soon as it poped up on Digg, and I found it faster than IE 6 (thanks to the invention of tabbed browsing) but it's still slower than Firefox and Firefox is slower than Opera (unless your on a Mac, where Safari is the fastest) But Microsoft is taking baby steps, rumors of releaseing the source code, tabbed browsing, what's next? Vista built on a Linux platform?

Check this out, it's pretty intresting http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/archives/2006/02/my_thoughts_on.html