Microsoft will release the final build of IE7 today to customers. IE7 will be made available via Automatic Updates on the 1st of November. At the moment there is no link on Microsoft.com, but Yahoo has the final build bundled with Yahoo Mail. FlexBeta is currently hosting Internet Explorer 7 Final without the need of downloading Yahoo Mail. My take: Read about my thoughts on IE7's new interface on my blog.
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Member since:2005-07-06
Face it, pal, as far as some of the new features are concerned, your favourite browser is playing catch-up to other browsers, some of which are developed by a bunch of enthusiasts. No amount of semantic wiggling on your part can change this simple fact: Firefox/Seamonkey/Safari/OmniWeb only today has features that have been present in other browsers for years.
T,FTFY.
Feel free to copy and paste that into every Mozilla/Apple news story on OSNews.
Member since:2005-08-26
You're wrong about two items.
1) Firefox does not *by default* make sure items are not cut off on the right side of the page. You have to manually tell it to shrink the page down to fix. All IE7 did was make this behavior the default. Browsers should have done this long ago
2) You didn't say anything remotely relevant to why IE7's anti-phishing feature is better or worse than Firefox's.
You are right though that IE7 has really just caught up with Firefox. There is nothing amazing about it, it's "just like everyone else" now.
Member since:2006-06-01
2) You didn't say anything remotely relevant to why IE7's anti-phishing feature is better or worse than Firefox's.
http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3634916
"If you're looking to avoid phishing sites, you may need to look no further than Microsoft's soon to be released Internet Explorer 7 browser.
According to a new study published by technical services firm 3Sharp, security features in Microsoft's IE 7 lead a pack of anti-phishing utilities from Netcraft, Google, eBay and Geotrust.
The study gave top marks to IE 7, which was tested at its beta 3 level and was closely followed by Netcraft.
The report noted that IE beat out Netcraft due to IE's, "ability to anticipate phish," or sites the trick people into coughing up personal information. Google's Safe Browsing anti-phishing tool running on Firefox came in a distant third."
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2005-11-15
"New printing features are wonderful."
Oh, you mean, like, it doesn't cut off the right side of the page when printing it? Marvelous, indeed. Your MSIE (or WIE, if you're paying attention to the latest fit of rebranding at MS's marketing department) is finally on par with every other browser, congrats.
"Tabs are ok ... but IE users have had tabs since the Broadpage add-on in 1999."
Yes, Broadpage had tabs. Not MSIE. There's a difference. Unlike MSIE, Netscape-derivatives had tabs natively, without the need to install some third-party frontend. Before version 7 MSIE has never had tabs. Please, don't forget that, mmm-kay?
"New security features. The phishing filter especially is good. Much better than Firefox's."
Ah, yes, MS finally realized that fusing browser with Windows shell and file manager is a bad idea. Took 'em long enough.
Face it, pal, as far as some of the new features are concerned, your favourite browser is playing catch-up to other browsers, some of which are developed by a bunch of enthusiasts. No amount of semantic wiggling on your part can change this simple fact: MSIE 7 only today has features that have been present in other browsers for years.