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Microsoft has finally released a replacement for IE6. A lot of work has gone in to cleaning up the interface and vastly improving security.
Internet Explorer 7 has been in beta for several months now and has received some pretty solid reviews. And today, Microsoft released the final, complete and supported version.
Microsoft is planning on releasing IE7 via Automatic Updates shortly. This will ensure the widest deployment possible and it's the only way they will be able to quickly move most non-technical users off of the old and insecure IE6.
Even people who use other browsers such as Firefox would be wise to upgrade to IE7, because IE is still used for a lot of things in the background.
Users will be prompted before IE7 is automatically installed, and will have the choice to decline or postpone the installation. Microsoft has released instructions on how corporate IT departments can block or manage the automatic installation of IE7.
Oh yes... IE7 has tabbed browsing as well. Some people enjoy this feature. There's also a phishing filter to detect sites that try to steal your bank card info (I guess people are still falling for those scams!)
Here's an interesting comparison of security in IE7 and Firefox 2.0 (article was based on Release Candidate 3 of IE7 and Beta 1 of Firefox 2.0):
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Internet Explorer 7 has been in beta for several months now and has received some pretty solid reviews. And today, Microsoft released the final, complete and supported version.
Microsoft is planning on releasing IE7 via Automatic Updates shortly. This will ensure the widest deployment possible and it's the only way they will be able to quickly move most non-technical users off of the old and insecure IE6.
Even people who use other browsers such as Firefox would be wise to upgrade to IE7, because IE is still used for a lot of things in the background.
Users will be prompted before IE7 is automatically installed, and will have the choice to decline or postpone the installation. Microsoft has released instructions on how corporate IT departments can block or manage the automatic installation of IE7.
Oh yes... IE7 has tabbed browsing as well. Some people enjoy this feature. There's also a phishing filter to detect sites that try to steal your bank card info (I guess people are still falling for those scams!)
Here's an interesting comparison of security in IE7 and Firefox 2.0 (article was based on Release Candidate 3 of IE7 and Beta 1 of Firefox 2.0):
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