Microsoft has released the 2nd beta of Internet Explorer 7 to the general public. You can read the release notes, or watch a tour of the new features. Microsoft warns you not to use this beta a production environment: "Evaluation of Internet Explorer 7 should start now, but the software should not be used on production systems in mission-critical environments. Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 Preview will only run on Windows XP Service Pack 2 systems, but will ultimately be available for Windows Vista, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, and Windows Server 2003." Update: You might have been expecting this, but there's already a DoS attack out there for this new beta.
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Member since:2005-07-06
How does MS make money off of IE? They don't.
Also, it did take Mozilla 5 years to come out with a final version of anything, doesn't matter what they were supposed to be working on or not.
Finally, IE development was completely halted, it's not like they've been working on it all this time, and it really doesn't suck (did you even use it?)
You come on.
Member since:2005-11-10
First off I didn't say MS made money directly from IE, but they WILL make money when they tie IE into Windows XP and above only and then say "Upgrade to this if you want all these features in IE7 "
And PLEASE show me where you get that it took 5 years for Mozilla to come out with a final version of anything? What product you talking about? Firefox didn't take that long!
And yes I know IE development was halted because MS created it as a way to send people to their content and kill compitition! Once that was done they didn't need to upgrade it to help customers, they just let us suffer with crappy, buggy, with a thousand security holes!
And yes I downloaded and installed it (And then removed it) as soon as the beta came out. And with all the resources they have, to me they could have made a better effort! LOL!
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2005-11-10
The more people that have their hands on the betas? So I should help Microsoft make more money. Why don't they hire more people to get their hands on the betas, they sure have the money.
And it did not take Mozilla over 5 years to put something out, when Netscape crated the Mozilla group in 1998 they were not supposed to be making software for end users, they were supposed to be collecting and tweaking software to be used in house on other projects.
On top of that it's not like IE started from scratch, but look how long it's been since IE6 came out and now IE7 creeps out and sucks. LOL! Come on.