Microsoft to unveil new Internet Explorer
Redmond, Washington: Microsoft Corp. is releasing a new test version of Internet Explorer, the market-leading Web browser that is facing competition from smaller players.
The new beta, available Tuesday for free download to English-languages customers, includes fixes for problems that were causing Internet Explorer 7 to stop working, said Dean Hachamovitch, general manager in charge of Internet Explorer development.
With the previous test version, Hachamovitch said the most common problems reported involved banking and news sites, in part because of security changes.
Improving security can be tricky since any changes can cause legitimate Web sites to stop working, frustrating users.
Microsoft also added more guidance to help people using IE’s new browser tab functions, which let a user view more than one Web site from within one window, using multiple “tabs.”
This is Microsoft’s third beta of Internet Explorer 7 made available to the general public, and Hachamovitch said there are plans for one more. The new version comes amid growing competition from browsers such as Firefox, which has long offered functions such as tabbed browsing. Some also consider other browsers to be more secure, since IE, with its market dominance, is a popular target for attacks.
The final version of Internet Explorer 7 is expected to be released in the second half of this year, around the time a version of Microsoft’s new Windows operating system is expected to be available for business users.
Microsoft is releasing the new Windows, called Vista, to consumers in early 2007.
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Welcome Kirat 
April 25th, 2006 at 7:12 pm
IE sucks big time, trust me! and an update by Microsoft is defined as removing old bugs and adding new ones….
…btw welcome Kirat
April 25th, 2006 at 7:30 pm
Heheh… Harry’s absolutely right. But I’ve heard that they have actually made serious improvements to IE. Waiting for MS to release VISTA (which has been delayed, as expected). Then I can download (pirated) n install it and get a feel of the new flavour of Windows and IE first hand.
I’m not into download betas from microsoft. Tried a beta of Live Messenger. Stupid prog crashed crashed n crashed (fine it was beta!).
No update has been released for IE 6 after SP2. IE 7 will definitely be better but by the time they release it, Opera and FF will have come up with better things.
April 25th, 2006 at 7:31 pm
And ya… welcome Kirat ONLY when she posts!!
I’m not sure she’s gonna post, but lets wait n watch!!
April 25th, 2006 at 10:17 pm
you are real excited aren’t you? despo!
April 26th, 2006 at 11:53 am
Oh wow! Is that all your pea-sized brain cud come up with??!!
Of course I’m excited yaar… new author means new content, new content means new comments, new comments means new discussions, new discussions means site gets popular!!