Comments on: Microsoft releases final IE 7 beta

Browser's third beta release includes some feature changes in addition to fixes to reliability, compatibility and security.
Images: IE 7 features

[Llib Setag]

IE7 = HIGH IMPACT RATING?

Really.
Maybe to the success of Microsoft, but to the rest of the world..."yawn".

Is it really a big deal anymore about MS-IE whatever? The Internet is the great democracy & with so many other browsers & ways to access the Internet WITHOUT using Microsoft OR IE whatever, why is this news?

This should just be on the MS Blog, not the main news page with a HIGH IMAPCT!!! announcement & rating C|NET.

Windoze Browser...zzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

[Cash_Coleman]

High Impact - to CNET's wallet.

Isn't it just amazing how fast a company is willing to talk everyone to death about a particular product... especially when that product is from a company *known* for their agressive marketing tactics (such as paying sites like this to talk us to death about every single move regarding IE)?

CNET - the cracks in your article/advertisement theory are starting to show; I for one suggest you start to change more than just your site design if you are actually interested in keeping your readership.

[mystereojones]

Final Beta

This better be good because they're already losing tons of surfers to Firefox.
http://www.techknowcafe.com/content/view/554/42/

[paulsecic]

beta

I refuse to use I.E. Firefox is my default browser.

[news_reader]

Are there still browser wars?

Microsoft has also lost tons of Notepad users to TextPad. Tons of Paint users have jumped ship to Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, etc. Does it even matter?

BTW, what's with the random link at the bottom of your posts?

[Earl Benser]

One more uselss MS product.....

... but it does keep Ballmer happy.

And someday, I might care.... someday....

[Tanjore]

How can u claim that it is useless

How can claim that it is useless!!
Have you used it?
It will be more usefull if you make statements that are not prejudiced!!!

[Tanjore]

Have u installed it and used it?

Have you installed IE7 and used it. Are you making your statements because you are rejudiced against IE7 because it is a microsoft product?

[Andrew J Glina]

But Earl...

I thought you didn't insult products that you haven't used. I used IE 7 today. Have you?

As for caring, you will when Steve drops Mac OS for Windows.

[sidewinder]

High impact

Well, this is High Impact. IE still has about 80% of the market, and as such this becomes high impact. I use FireFox, which is growing in popularity quite quickly, but IE is still much bigger

[Lex Man]

The big question

The main question is when IE 7 finally hits, well Microsoft update, will enough people move back to IE 7 to make it worth Microsoft's time?

Somehow I doubt it.

[ggupta7]

but still...

It is IE is the most popular browser and more poeple use IE than all other browsers combined! I know this is because it comes default with windows, but then, if it was a really horrible browser, people would have shifted to other browsers in great numbers.

I have come across a lot of websites which are designed specifically for IE and they don't work in other browsers... read this story for example http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4115806.stm There are much fewer websites which work the other way round. With introduction of firefox, web designers have to put more code in their websites to make it work with both browsers.

Besides, firefox has a big problem rendering Indic fonts. Opera also suffers from the same problem.

With introduction of IE7, Microsoft has really narrowed the gap between IE and other browsers featurewise. The only concern now is security issues, which might be the only reason for people to switch to other browsers. BTW, I remember installing version 1.5.0.1 and after couple of days was asked to update it to 1.5.0.2 because of sucurity flaws... within weeks Firefox people released 1.5.0.3 to fix flaws in the previous one (http://news.com.com/Firefox+gets+a+fresh+security+update/2100-1002_3-6067889.html?tag=nl) and within a month they found "a dozen security vulnerabilities, five of which are deemed "critical."" with version 1.5.0.4 This is no different than Microsoft's IE.
Think about it...

[qwerty75]

Most popular?

Hardly

It is used the most because it is sitting in front of the countless clueless people using Dells.

The security in firefox is very, very different from IE. IE6 is extremely old, and new flaws are found almost daily. Firefox flaws are fixed in days and never exploited. IE flaws are found, and then it takes MS months to acknowlege it, and then months longer to release a half-assed fix(usually a workaround that can break with a future patch).

A rather big difference don't you think?

[Tui Pohutukawa]

This story was first published on June 29.

Why is it news now? Or is anything that MS does, or doesn't do,
news - several times over?

[qwerty75]

Does anyone really care

MS left IE to rot for years and now that they have competition are releasing a copy-cat version. How is this important? MS is a follower and irrelevant.

Anyone who thinks that IE7 will come close to other browsers in terms of security, flexbility, standards complaince and performance are seriously deluding themselves.

[Andrew J Glina]

Mac OS

Sounds more like MacOS. Left to rot for years, and only brought back to life by borrowing from another OS.

[t8]

Firefox

Firefox is more secure because it isn't part of the OS kernel. It is an application that sits on the kernel.

IT doesn't matter how secure they make IE, it is fundamentally flawed because IE is part of the Windows kernel, the heart of that operating system.

That means that there remains a path between hackers and your computer via the Internet. They may say it is secure, but the path exists, that is the problem that won't go away.

[t8]

Firefox is more secure

Firefox is more secure because it isn't part of the OS kernel. It is an application that sits on the kernel.

IT doesn't matter how secure they make IE, it is fundamentally flawed because IE is part of the Windows kernel, the heart of that operating system.

That means that there remains a path between hackers and your computer via the Internet. They may say it is secure, but the path exists, that is the problem that won't go away.

[nah40]

IE 7 B3

I do not know anyone that has been able to install this.