Microsoft IE7 Beta 2 Preview Released for Download
Developers and IT pros: Download and evaluate the newest, layout-complete build of the Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 Preview - released on March 20th - and explore the improvements in security, user interface, and development platform.
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20.3.2006 Buy Windows 7 for 35€, Just for French and German Students
Microsoft has lined up some pretty sweet deals with its latest iteration of the Windows client at the core, beating hands-down the special offerings it made available for Windows Vista, when it debuted in January 2007.
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29.10.2009 German hacker denied entry into U.S. for Black Hat training
Thomas Dullien, a prominent security researcher who has been a fixture at the annual Black Hat security conference, has been denied entry into the U.S. to attend and conduct training at this year’s confab.
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30.7.2007 Microsoft: IE6 vs. IE7 vs. IE7 in Vista
As in the case of the inhouse competition between Windows XP and Windows Vista, due to its prolonged support strategy, Microsoft is also one of its most fierce and stubborn competitors on the browser market.
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6.12.2007 Microsoft Offers More Ways to Play Games for Windows and Xbox 360 at German Games Convention
LEIPZIG, Germany — Aug. 23, 2006 — Once again proving that its game platforms offer more ways for gamers to have fun, Microsoft Corp. today announced great new games and accessories for Xbox 360™ and Windows® gamers.
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24.8.2006 Convert your firefox favorites and feeds into IE7 with "Firefox To IE7"
My friend blake, who runs windowscoding.com, has just posted this really useful application to his blog..
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30.7.2006 IE7 features
Internet Explorer 7: Now in beta testing for developers
The first stage of the beta process for Internet Explorer 7 has begun?developer testing! The latest version of the world?s most popular Web browser has been released for technical evaluation, feedback, and testing by software and Web site developers.
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The First Year of IE7
It’s been a little over a year since we released IE7 on Windows XP and for Windows Vista, so I thought it would be worthwhile to talk about where we are after the year.
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3.12.2007 IE7 Security features
All web browsers make security decisions based upon URIs. Many security features, from Security Zones to the JavaScript same-origin policy, depend on the browser being able to consistently evaluate URIs to determine their components, and to compare them to other URIs.
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IE7 getting the Google treatment
For those of you who have downloaded Windows Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 Preview you might get a surprise when visiting the Google.com webpage.
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9.2.2006 Screenshots IE7 push
Microsoft will distribute Internet Explorer 7 as a high-priority update via Automatic Updates and the Windows Update and Microsoft Update sites shortly after the final version of Internet Explorer 7 is released (planned for the 4th quarter of 2006). I
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31.7.2006 Three million of IE7 in first 4 days
IEBLOG: In the first four days over three million of you have already downloaded the final release.
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25.10.2006 Microsoft Update now works with IE7
When
Internet Explorer 7 Beta released to testers it left testers with a broken Windows Update that wouldn't load properly, disabling the ability to update Windows with critical patches that have been released since the end of July. This seems to of been fixed and on my PC it even redirects to Microsoft Update before my chosen homepage is loaded.
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IE7 Beta 2 now available in multiple languages
After endless nights and countless slices of pizza, the IE team is proud to announce the availability of Arabic, Finnish, and German versions of IE7 Beta 2 in addition to the English versions we released a week and a half ago.
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8.5.2006 IE7 Beta 3 now available in multiple languages
The IE team is proud to announce the availability of Arabic, Finnish, German and Japanese versions of IE7 Beta 3 in addition to the English versions we released a week and a half ago.
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12.7.2006 IE7 Release Candidate builds are on the way
Todd from IEBlog yesterday posted on his MSDN blog about the future of IE7 as well as some tidbits about when to expect release candidate and final builds. You can find this information in the comments section
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4.8.2006 IE7 Issues Fixed On Forums
On the Bink.nu Forums, we use a component called FreeTextBox for users to enter their posts. Aparently, there was a small bug that prevented people from posting in IE7. I have updated the script files, and we are all fixed.
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9.8.2006On the Bink. IE7 - WMP11 Launch News
According to a new Vista-related press release on Microsoft's site, Windows Media Player 11 will be released to the public on October 24th.
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13.10.2006 Microsoft Planning Life After IE7
You won't have to wait another five years to see a new browser from Microsoft.
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16.10.2006 Microsoft's Response to IE7 vulnerability
Official Statement: Microsoft is aware of public reports of a vulnerability in Outlook Express which is currently under investigation.
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20.10.2006 Attackers take aim at IE7 flaw
Microsoft is warning users to avoid suspicious websites and emails after attacks were reported on an unpatched flaw in Internet Explorer 7.
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29.10.2007 Microsoft outlines IE7 security plans
Microsoft is tightening up the way its Internet Explorer browser handles HTTPS for version 7, which is used to secure online transactions, in an attempt to give people more protection online.
In a posting on the Microsoft Internet Explorer blog, IE program manager Eric Lawrence said that IE7 would support the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol by default.
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Security Updates for IE7 and Vista Beta 1 Available Now
Security updates for Internet Explorer 7 Beta 1 and Internet Explorer in Windows Vista Beta 1 are now available from the Windows Vista/IE 7 beta downloads page on the Connect site. Direct links to these updates are also provided below. These security updates resolve a vulnerability in IE 7 Beta 1 and IE in Windows Vista Beta 1 that has already been addressed for released/supported versions of Internet Explorer by Microsoft Security Bulletin MS05-052.
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Microsoft IE7 Beta 2 Public Preview
Microsoft is planning to release, to the public, a preview version of Internet Explorer 7.
Dubbed "Public Preview" the release includes tabbed browsing, page zoom, tab groups, RSS support and improved printing support. The release is expected to be available by this evening (GMT).
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31.1.2006 Microsoft Launches IE7 Bug Database
Testers will need a Passport account to access the Internet Explorer Feedback site.
Microsoft Corp. has launched a public bug database for Internet Explorer 7, which is currently in beta.
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28.3.2006 Google CEO Reiterates Concerns Over IE7
Search giant doesn't like the integrated search feature in Microsoft's browser.
The next release of Microsoft's Internet Explorer continues to concern Google, which nonetheless has no plans to develop a competing browser, Google CEO Eric Schmidt said today.
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1.6.2006 Yahoo! Ships Customized IE7 Beta 2
Recently at the IE Blog, they have posted a suprising yet pretty cool article talking about a customised version of IE7 with Yahoo! branding.
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15.6.2006 Microsoft will not rename IE7 in Windows Vista
IEblog: I had
mentioned a while back that we planned to call the version of IE7 in Windows Vista “Internet Explorer 7+”. Well, the feedback we got on the blog was overwhelming – many of you didn’t like it. So, as we’ve
said on our website, we heard you.
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5.8.2006 Microsoft's Responce to "2nd IE7 bug"
MSRC BLOG: This is Christopher Budd. I wanted to take a moment and let people know some information about a new public report about a possible vulnerability in Internet Explorer we’ve received today.
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27.10.2006 Vista, IE7 Clear of US Antitrust Concerns
The Justice Department will not be going after Microsoft for any antitrust concerns with Windows Vista or Internet Explorer 7.
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22.11.2006Microsoft Releases Public IE7
Preview
Microsoft on Tuesday made
available for public download
a pre-Beta 2 release of
Internet Explorer 7, which is
designed to showcase features
the new browser will bring and
give developers time to play
with the latest technology.
IE7 notably adds a tabbed
interface and improves browser
security...
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31.01.2006IE7 now on 100 million systems
Tony Chor, the Group Program
Manager for the Internet
Explorer team claims 100
millionth download of IE7
I'm pleased to report
that on January 8th, we had
the 100 millionth IE7
installation. However, even
more important than
installations is usage.
According to
WebSideStory
(the company we use to
measure browser usage), as of
this week, over 25% of all
visitors to websites in the US
were using IE7, making IE7 the
second most used browser after
IE6. We expect these numbers
to continue to rise as we
complete our final localized
versions, scale up AU
distribution, and with the
consumer availability of
Windows
Vista on January 30, 2007.
If you haven't
installed IE7 for Windows XP
yet, you can
download it
here. You won't need to
download it for Windows Vista
as it has IE7 built in with
all the same features as the
XP version, plus
Protected
Mode.
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15.01.2007Updated Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VPC Images Available
VPC Hard Disk Image for testing websites with different IE versions on Windows XP SP2, Windows XP SP3 and Windows Vista.
This
download page contains four separate VPC images, depending on what you want to test.
- IE6-XPSP3_VPC.exe contains a Windows
XP SP3 with IE6 VHD file
- IE7-XPSP2_VPC.exe contains a Windows XP SP2 with IE7 VHD file
- IE8B2-XPSP3_VPC.exe
contains a Windows XP SP3 with IE8 Beta 2 VHD file
- IE7-VIS1.exe+IE7-VIS2.rar+IE7-VIS3.rar contain a Vista Image with IE7 VHD
file.
Note: For The Vista image, you will need all three files, downloaded and in the same directory, then simply run
IE7-VIS1.exe.
This VPC image will expire in January, 2009.
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29.08.2008Interview: Microsoft Exec
Talks IE7, RSS
Following a decision to
release a standalone version
of IE7, browser development at
Microsoft has come fast and
furious. BetaNews this week
sat down with Gary Schare,
Director of IE Product
Management, to discuss the
changes coming in IE7,
Firefox's growth, and how
Microsoft will bring RSS to
the mainstream...
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18.02.2006PINNED: IE7 Beta 2 Refresh
Released!
Microsoft, around an hour ago
released a refresh build of
the widely used IE7 Beta 2
Preview.
The
build released holds the build
number of
7.0.5335.5
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No noticeable
changes/improvements have
shown as of yet but you can be
rest assured that as soon as
more information has arrisen
we will let you guys
know!
There is
no support for 64bit users
with this build
yet
Keep your eyes
superglued to this page for
more details as soon as we get
them.
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21.03.2006Microsoft: IE7 a
'High-Priority' Update
Microsoft announced
distribution plans for IE7 on
Wednesday, saying it would
make the next-generation
browser available as a
"high-priority"
download via the Automatic
Updates feature. However, the
company make available an
option to opt out of the
update...
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26.07.2006Microsoft Announces IE7+ for
Vista
In order to differentiate
between Internet Explorer 7 on
Windows XP and Vista,
Microsoft on Friday announced
"IE7+." The special
branding is designed to
highlight the additional
features IE7 will receive in
Vista, including Protected
Mode, parental controls, and
improved network diagnostics...
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27.05.2006Firefox 2.0 vs. IE7 in Vista: How Close?
Whatever Firefox 2.0 is, it
isn't "sweeping," and
nowhere does that fact become
more evident than in a Windows
Vista test environment. We
started up both IE7 and FF2 in
Vista, and were left
wondering, will Firefox users
be happy using their browser
in Vista without the
degree of changes they'd
experience with IE7?..
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26.10.2006Is there a new remote data execution exploit for IE7?
All that anyone knows for certain as of today is that there are some browsers that appear to be the victim of new attacks using a very old profile:
embedded binary code for graphic objects appearing in IE7 Web pages...
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11.12.2008Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2
Preview
Microsoft have just released
Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2
Preview to the masses, only
hours after other news sites
reported that Beta 2 would be
reaching the public
shortly.
"
Internet Explorer 7
Beta 2 Preview includes
advancements in security and
browsing experience for end
users, functionality and
compatibility for developers,
and manageability for
corporate network
administrators.
Beta 2 Preview is intended
to enable developers, web
developers and IT pros to
begin to test the new browser
for compatibility with their
applications and
websites."
This build holds the number
of "5296". Even though this
is older than the leaked build
from a few weeks ago (build
5299), this is an official
release.
View
our forum thread
here to
discuss this release.
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31.01.2006The First Year of IE7
It’s been a little over a year since we released IE7 on Windows XP and for Windows Vista, so I thought it would be worthwhile to talk about
where we are after the year.
According to internal Microsoft research based on data from
Visual Sciences Corporation, there are over 300 million users are experiencing the web with IE7. This makes IE7 the
second most popular browser after IE6. IE7 is already #1 in the US and UK, and we expect IE7 to surpass IE6 worldwide shortly.
Perhaps more
important than the overall numbers is the positive impact IE7 has made for our users. As you know, we focused a lot on improving security in IE7. We
believe IE 7 is the safest Microsoft browser released to date. According to a
vulnerability report published today, IE7 has fewer vulnerabilities than previous versions of IE over the same time
period. What’s more, the report showed that IE7 had both fewer fixed and unfixed vulnerabilities in the first year than the other browsers we
compared.
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03.12.2007IE 7 bug reopens debate over patch responsibilities
Security researchers are again arguing over who is responsible -- Microsoft or third-party developers -- for protocol-handling bugs after a researcher
on Friday said Internet Explorer 7 can be used to trick users into launching malware.
Posting to the Full Disclosure mailing
list, Juergen Schmidt, a researcher at Heise Security, blamed IE 7 for passing invalid Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI) to Windows XP. Specifically,
said Schmidt, IE 7 accepts URLs from other applications that include the "%"
character, which can launch software or scripts on users'
machines if they click on a malformed link.
According to Schmidt and others, the earlier IE 6 doesn't have the bug, indicating
that something broke between versions. "Post-IE7 has a flaw/threat/vulnerability it hasn't had pre-IE7," said Thierry Zoller, a penetration tester
at German security firm n.runs.
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Microsoft prepares IE7 Beta 3
for mid-August
The Hotfix is reporting a
Microsoft source has quietly
leaked that IE7 Beta 3 will be
availible to the public
sometime in mid-August of this
year. This goes hand-in-hand
with official MS reports that
they are indeed working on
Beta 3 at the moment.
One fix going in
Beta 3 will be will be to
revert back to an IE6 behavior
when using PHP pages. One IE7
tester noted that "when it
comes to compare the code in
the session variable and the
code in the post data,
they're different." Eric
Lawrence of Microsoft
responded with "for
compatibility reasons, we're
going to revert to IE6
behavior for IE7 Beta 3 to
prevent this exact issue" on
the subject.
In the past few weeks
Microsoft has made a few
references to IE7 Beta 3 on
their IE Blogs about bug fixes
and releases. IE7 Final is
set for a Winter 2006
release.
jcxp.net - 02.06.2006
3 Million IE7 Downloads in 4 Days
Microsoft is heralding the
launch of Internet Explorer 7
as a success, announcing that
the new browser has been
downloaded three million times
in the first four days. Early
next month, customers will
begin receiving IE7
automatically, at which time
adoption numbers will likely
skyrocket...
betanews.com - 26.10.2006
Yahoo! Ships Customized IE7
Beta 2
Recently at the IE Blog, they
have posted a suprising yet
pretty cool article talking
about a customised version of
IE7 with Yahoo! branding.
Read below for the
entire article;
"We often talk with our
partners about all the ways
they can take advantage of the
extensibility in IE7. Today,
Yahoo! released something new
and (I think) pretty cool.
?Internet Explorer 7 optimized
by Yahoo!? presets the
homepage and search to Yahoo
properties. Of course, users
can easily change the settings
just as they can with the
standard version that we ship.
The Yahoo! version of IE7 is
available now on the Yahoo!
site.
Yahoo! used the beta version
of the Internet Explorer
Administration Kit (IEAK) to
customize IE7 to meet their
needs. The IEAK is available
to all developers and partners
who want to create their own
customized versions of IE7, as
well as IT pros who want to
use it to ease enterprise
deployment. You can download
it from the Microsoft Technet
site."
jcxp.net - 12.06.2006
Neowin Asks: Who can't upgrade to IE7?
As most Neowin visitors know
by now, Windows Internet
Explorer 7 was released this
week. While there are probably
a few of you who will not
upgrade immediately because
you use another browser
(Firefox, Opera, etc) the
question of the day is... are
those, the people like you out
there who cannot
upgrade to IE7?
I
can't, at least not at work.
The private university I work
for has multiple programs that
simply will not function on
systems with IE7 installed on
them. As reflected in a letter
sent our by my boss to our
campus, "these vendors
continue to work toward
support, but it will likely be
January or February of 2007
before that support becomes
official."
While I
in no way blame Microsoft for
this -- these vendors, Cisco
being among them, have had
ample time to test the IE7
beta and RCs -- the fact of
the matter is our organization
cannot allow systems to be
upgraded on our campus, even
student machines (which
require a school issued Cisco
program to access our network,
that program breaks with
IE7.)
Are there
programs that you or your
company use that have forced
you to stay at IE6? Please
comment and share.
Read full story.....
neowin.net - 20.10.2006
IE7 Public Beta Due Early Next
Year
Those eager to get a taste of
the next Internet Explorer
release with tabs and RSS
support only need to wait a
couple more months. A public
beta of IE7 for Windows XP is
slated to arrive in the first
quarter of 2006, IE team head
Dean Hachamovitch confirmed on
Tuesday...
betanews.com - 07.12.2005
IE7 Beta Breaks Google AdSense
Developers testing out the
latest version of Internet
Explorer 7 are discovering a
nasty flaw -- the browser
seems to be incompatible with
Google's AdSense advertising
service. Although the problem
seems limited to those running
IE7 Beta under Windows XP, it
still has some developers
worried...
betanews.com - 08.02.2006
MS: IE7 Flaw Really in Outlook Express
Microsoft responded Thursday
to reports of the first
exploit affecting Internet
Explorer 7, which cropped up
less than 24 hours after the
browser's official launch.
Christopher Budd from
Microsoft's Security Response
Center says the flaw lies not
in IE7, but in an Outlook
Express component...
betanews.com - 20.10.2006
IE7 Beta 2 Receives Mixed
Reviews
With promises of security,
stability and tabbed browsing,
Web users have been eagerly
anticipating Internet Explorer
7. Microsoft released Beta 2
this week with great fanfare,
but does IE7 deliver a
next-generation browsing
experience? Read on for a
selection of reviews from
BetaNews readers and tell us
what you think...
betanews.com - 28.04.2006
