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Mozilla: IE7 will boost Firefox take-up
Talkback Stories like this remind me of how appallingly Microsoft treat their customers. Not making IE7 available to half of their business customers is self defeating. Mozilla have every right to feel confident about the use of Firefox on corporate desktops.
[July 21, 2005, 14:42]
IE7 feature news emerges
News After a years-long drumbeat of developer complaints, Microsoft may finally be budging on its support for standards and on key missing features in its Internet Explorer browser. Microsoft last month broke with a longstanding pledge and said it would...
[March 17, 2005, 8:00]
IE7: Not just for XP users
News The next version of the Internet Explorer browser will be available to a variety of Microsoft operating systems, the product team has revealed -- but Windows 2000 may well be absent from the list. According to the official IE7 blog, the browser...
[March 2, 2005, 11:25]
IE7 to fail standards test
News Microsoft's new Internet Explorer 7 browser won't pass a stringent standards test that rivals have embraced. In its browser blog, Microsoft acknowledged that IE 7 would not pass the Acid2 test from the Web Standards Project (WaSP), which examines a...
[August 2, 2005, 9:15]
Mozilla: IE7 will boost Firefox take-up
News The Mozilla Foundation is expecting to see a surge in interest in the Firefox browser from enterprise users once Microsoft launches Internet Explorer 7 next year. IE7, which will be available in beta this summer, will not be available to users of...
[July 19, 2005, 14:20]
IE7 linked to possible phishing scam
News Microsoft is investigating a possible vulnerability in Internet Explorer 7 that could help cybercrooks launch phishing scams, the company said on Wednesday. An attacker can use an error message displayed by the latest Microsoft browser to send web...
[March 15, 2007, 8:33]
IE7 beta goes public
News Microsoft took the wraps off Internet Explorer 7 Tuesday, releasing the new "preview" version of its Web browser to the general public for testing. The program, still a work in progress, is available for download from the Internet Explorer section...
[February 1, 2006, 8:25]
Windows 2000 users miss out on IE7
Talkback One can not help but wonder if Microsoft would even had bothered with IE7 if it wasn't for FireFox. Which raises the question of how consumer friendly (innovative enough for the right price at the right time) Microsoft really is.
[June 4, 2005, 0:20]
Microsoft reveals how to avoid forced IE7 upgrade
News Microsoft has released instructions for administrators who want to avoid a forced upgrade to the latest version of Internet Explorer, version 7, due to occur on February 12. Users of Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) — Microsoft's software...
[January 22, 2008, 13:23]
Windows 2000 users miss out on IE7
Talkback .and no doubt IE7 will require several security patches before the end of 2005 ::)
[June 2, 2005, 21:09]
Microsoft claims IE7 launch success
Talkback IE7 is using IE6 code so the security risks are still present. Plus M$ has ignored web standards and gone with their own, so called, standards so there will be problems viewing some pages. Most critics say it isn't an upgrade, more of a sideways move.
[October 20, 2006, 13:37]
Microsoft outlines IE7 security plans
Talkback I am a FF convert, using the 1.5beta 1. I wanted to try IE7 to see its improvements and how it handled RSS, but the things impossible to download let alone install, I found this dissapointing. However someone introduced me to these things in FF...
[October 27, 2005, 20:05]
Microsoft outlines IE7 security plans
Talkback You still want to maintain an IE7 friendly website or simply opt for a website that's truly industry (open) standard friendly?
[October 27, 2005, 23:40]
iDefense offers bounty for Vista and IE7 flaws
News Security intelligence and analysis company iDefense is to offer an $8,000 bounty for vulnerabilities found in Vista and Internet Explorer 7 (IE7).iDefense, which became part of Verisign in July 2005, is offering the cash as part of its...
[January 11, 2007, 15:44]
FF vs IE7
Talkback IE7 is NOT a new browser. It uses IE6 code so the insecurity is inherent. It is just IE6 with a new paint job. M$ has had time to do a complete rebuild on this browser and this is the best they came up with?
[October 31, 2006, 12:41]
Microsoft readies patch for critical IE7 exploit
News Microsoft issued a critical security warning on Tuesday that a malicious exploit is making the rounds and attacking vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer 7. The risk is believed to be widespread, given that IE7 is the latest version of Microsoft's...
[December 17, 2008, 7:54]
Microsoft claims IE7 launch success
News A day after its release, some minor issues with Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) have materialised, but overall the new Microsoft browser appears to be well received. Microsoft has defused what would be the most serious issue: a first security hole in the...
[October 20, 2006, 9:10]
Can IE7 pass the Acid2 test?
Talkback There's only one way to make IE7 (and/or future versions) behave and that's to only develop and design fully for browsers that do behave and make sure that website visitors are pointed to the right browsers to allow them the full experience of the...
[March 19, 2005, 20:42]
Yahoo launches customised IE7 beta
News Yahoo has launched a customised version of Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) Beta 2 which has Yahoo search built into the browser. The customised browser sets Yahoo.com as the default home page on the primary tab, while Yahoo Mail automatically...
[June 12, 2006, 16:50]
'Basic' tabbed browsing to come in IE7
News Microsoft has confirmed that the upcoming version of its Internet Explorer (IE) browser will include tabbed browsing, a feature made popular by competitors Opera and Firefox. Making the announcement in a Microsoft blog, IE product unit manager Dean...
[May 17, 2005, 9:50]
