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The
Daily Grind 560
By Mike Gunderloy
Wednesday, February 16, 2005
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IE7 -
I was going to file this under "information," but really, there's not a lot
of information involved. Microsoft is planning to ship something called
Internet Explorer 7.0, it will go into beta this summer (which in Microsoft
time means "by the end of September"), and it will include security
improvements. It's also mentioned in a
press release which adds no more detail. Microsoft could live up to what
it's said so far by simply licensing the
NetCraft anti-phishing toolbar and changing the IE version number. As
far as I can tell from the announcements, Microsoft is simply taking the
usual round of security upgrades and patches that would go into a service
pack and calling it a new version (I expect with cosmetic changes at all).
If that's what IE7 amounts to, I expect that people will be very much
disappointed. They need to leapfrog Firefox in areas like plugin
extensibility, standards support, and tabbed browsing to avoid becoming a
laughingstock at this point.
Mike Gunderloy is
the lead developer for Larkware and author of numerous books and articles on
programming topics.


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