IE 7 will stand alone! | The Coffeehouse

Charles
Welcome Change

Microsoft today is committing to deliver a new version of Internet Explorer for Windows XP customers. This version, called IE 7, will add new levels of security to Windows XP SP2 while maintaining the level of extensibility and compatibility customers have come to expect from IE.

IE 7 will build on and broaden the progress made in XP SP 2, while putting in place even stronger defenses against phishing, malware and spyware. A beta version of IE 7 will be available this summer with the final version shipping once IE 7 meets the quality standards our customers demand.

IE 7 will stand alone! You spoke. We listened.

Be sure to check out the IE team blog for details.

Yay!

GurliGebis

Does this mean we will finally get PNGs working and tabs? Smiley

TDude

If IE7 will have the whole look and feel of Avant Browser, I'm fully with it!

Spread IE Wink

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Tyler Brown
Bullets change governments far surer than votes.

Well its good to hear that Microsoft is going to be releasing an update to Internet Explorer before Longhorn. If they hadn't have done so, I believe that alternative browsers would have picked up quick a few market share percentage points. I'm eager to give it a try!

Tom Servo
W-hat?

I just read security everywhere. What about the rendering engine?

samrolken

Please include support for alpha-channel transparency in PNG images!

Manip

Keep those loading times down!

(This version's loading times are fine, keep it that way - don't go the way of firefox)

Yggdrasil
Pour me a cab, 'cause I can't drink no more.

samrolken wrote:
Please include support for alpha-channel transparency in PNG images!

I shouldn't be C9'ing after midnight. I saw this and thought "What conspiracy channels?".

fdezjose
Hello from Madrid...

Finally some Great News from IE! Can't wait for the beta!

compugab
From Québec in Canada

Very good news.

Congrat. all

GurliGebis

Yggdrasil wrote:
I shouldn't be C9'ing after midnight. I saw this and thought "What conspiracy channels?".

LOL, I almost fell of my chair ... keep it comming Smiley

Shining Arcanine

Can we expect standards mode (e.g. HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.0 Transitional/Strict, XHTML 1.1, CSS 1, CSS 2.1 and so on) to work properly and PNG and P3P support fixed in IE7 or will we have to wait until IE8?

Can we expect support for new standards (e.g. SVG, MathML and so on)?

NeoTOM
OMG WTF REDESIGN

Tabs? Will we finally be able to tell the rest of the browsermonkeys to STFU?

MisterDonut
The Disco Godfather

Will this be a 'catch-up' release? Or will IE7 match and beat (in terms of features) other browsers out there? If people have switched away from IE, then why would they switch back simply because IE has finally caught up?

Tom Servo
W-hat?

Another wish: JPEG2000 support.

JohnF
No stout about it!

With so many of the core parts of Longhorn Indigo, Avalon and IE7 becoming available for Windows XP and WinFS being dropped completely will Longhorn be a much less important release? More link Windows 98 to Windows 95?

Is Microsoft releasing these technologies to keep an upper hand over linux on the desktop?

matt0210

Charles wrote:
...while maintaining the level of extensibility and compatibility customers have come to expect from IE. ...

Why does this bother me. What I've come to expect of IE since it's glory days is absolute rubbish! In the days of Netscape 4.7 and IE 5 the choice was clear. But ever since MS killed Netscape they've stopped development on IE. They've ridden out their monopolistic stance and feel like it's time to throw a tiny little bit of bait at the big companies wanting to switch. Even just a new spash screen an version number will be enough for most admins to keep IE instead of dumping it.
Good strategy, but I don't see a real benefit until Longhorn. A redesign is neccesary since IE is part of the OS, if we can really believe that...

ngb

why do so many people want tabs? isnt that what the taskbar is? why do we want two taskbars?

Sampy
This will be the sixth time we have destroyed it and we have become exceedingly efficient at it

JohnF wrote:

With so many of the core parts of Longhorn Indigo, Avalon and IE7 becoming available for Windows XP and WinFS being dropped completely will Longhorn be a much less important release? More link Windows 98 to Windows 95?

No.

I can't say much more but no. While those were the flashy features we showed off at PDC, there is much more going into Longhorn than you realize. I'm going to stick with Scoble's position and not talk about it until the Longhorn team is ready. Neither MS or our customers deserve false expectations.

robw

So it seems that all IE7 is going to be is a glorified security update? If that's the case, I think calling it version 7 is a bit much! What's the difference between that and all the critical security updates I keep installing for it?

Security is important, but it should be a given, not a reason for getting excited about a new version - how about improving the rendering engine to be standards compliant, ever thought of that???

This stinks of being a marketing stunt - and shows just how worried Microsoft are about Firefox, Safari, Google et al.

androidi

ngb wrote:
why do so many people want tabs? isnt that what the taskbar is? why do we want two taskbars?

Exactly, this just points out that most people think that the Taskbar could be better than what we currently have. Adding tabs to browser is just a workaround to the real issue.

robw

androidi wrote:
Exactly, this just points out that most people think that the Taskbar could be better than what we currently have. Adding tabs to browser is just a workaround to the real issue.

Tabbed browsing is more intuitive than having an overcrowded task bar. That's why people like tabbed browsing so much. The windows task bar is for applications - the firefox tabs are for different windows within the same application. It's all about usability....

Sampy
This will be the sixth time we have destroyed it and we have become exceedingly efficient at it

robw wrote:
So it seems that all IE7 is going to be is a glorified security update? If that's the case, I think calling it version 7 is a bit much! What's the difference between that and all the critical security updates I keep installing for it?

Security is important, but it should be a given, not a reason for getting excited about a new version - how about improving the rendering engine to be standards compliant, ever thought of that???

This stinks of being a marketing stunt - and shows just how worried Microsoft are about Firefox, Safari, Google et al.

The only announced features are the security updates. They've specifically said that it's too early to talk about other features. I think the IE team realizes that security hardening, while important, isn't going to keep us on top. But then again, I don't know what they're planning either Smiley

NeoTOM
OMG WTF REDESIGN

ngb wrote:
why do so many people want tabs? isnt that what the taskbar is? why do we want two taskbars?

I want tabs just so I can tell off all those Firefox lUsers. I agree, the XP taskbar is fine (30 windows in XP = more intuitive than tabs)

WyVern

Yeah. I hope that Internet Explorer 7 will hava the characteristic of multi-tab view style.