Thread: Internet Explorer 7.0 Beta 2

The development at Microsoft takes the lead and after a long, marked by vulnerability thirst path of the Internet Explorer 6.0 is available for over 4 years of abstinence (from the Internet Explorer Service Pack 1) is a long overdue browser upgrade the software giant from Redmond to the house.


Following an initial public, all-English version of the upcoming test of browser build number 5296and updated in mid-March a preview version of the build 5335.5 running an large-scale test of the different language versions. This is about the real Beta 2 of Internet Explorer 7.0. It carries the build number 5346.5 and is classified Feature Complete. Changes to the rendering engine, Microsoft will no longer make, so that developers can begin to optimize their pages based on this version. Further fine-tuning may however be expected in the area of the surface and of course in terms of bug fixes.


Microsoft is hoping for as much user feedback on this version of IE 7.0. Are available as well as the mandatory English language version version (Win XP, Win XP / Server 2003 x64, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 ia64) packages now also in Japanese, Finnish, Arabic and German are available. The download is from Microsoft , or possible from our download archive.



For a beta-test Microsoft makes absolutely unusual in the Beta 2 of Internet Explorer 7.0 German telephone support, which will provide advice and assistance. The toll number for callers from Germany is +49 (0) 1805 672 255 for Austria and Switzerland have separate phone numbers ready.


New features of Internet Explorer 7 include a protection system against phishing , where the URL of the page you visited a is matched on behalf of Microsoft by various companies compiled blacklist support for tabs, simplified browsing of websites based on a toolbar like Mozilla Firefoxand the ability to read and subscribe RSS feeds . Web developers are allowed to - even if they want the daily surf a wide berth to make Internet Explorer 7 - looking forward to many bugs, among other things that the CSS terms of support have been fixed and the Internet Explorer 7PNG images with alpha- Transparency is correctly represented.


To make Internet Explorer 7.0, attractive, Microsoft has its own this one add-on portal launched, as it is the competitor Mozilla Firefox and knows where developers can offer their own browser plug-ins available for free download. For more trust in the phishing filter in Internet Explorer 7.0 to provide an independent study under the Jefferson Wells . Therefore be sent in using this function no person-related data to Microsoft.


The final version of Internet Explorer 7.0 is available in the second half of this year and is also available part of the upcoming Windows Vista to be. The schedule provides that after the public beta 2 of Windows Vista, appears in late May , a beta 3 and then released a release candidate of the browser.