Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP Available Now
Today we released Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP. I encourage everyone to download the final version from https://www.microsoft.com/ie.
We listened carefully to feedback from many sources (including this blog) and worked hard to deliver a safer browser that makes everyday tasks easier. When I first posted publicly about IE7, I wrote that we would go further to defend users from phishing and malicious software. The Phishing Filter and the architectural work in IE7 around networking and ActiveX opt-in will help keep users more secure. IE7 also delivers a much easier browsing experience with features like tabbed browsing (especially with QuickTabs), shrink-to-fit printing, an easily customizable search box, and a new design that leaves more screen real estate for the web site you’re viewing. IE7’s CSS improvements are incredibly important for developers as many of you have made quite clear. I also think IE7’s RSS experience and platform are important, powerful, and innovative.
In addition to our release of IE7, Yahoo! has a customized version of the browser available today and over the next few days partners such as Weather.com and USA TODAY will offer their own customized versions. These versions will tailor the user experience with specific toolbars, additional search engines, favorites, and RSS feeds.
I want to thank everyone who provided feedback as we developed and fine-tuned Internet Explorer 7. Over the 20 months since Bill Gates first announced our commitment to deliver IE7, we released five betas and a release candidate to millions of users worldwide. With each release, your feedback helped us make IE7 better. Your contributions, ideas, and direct comments were crucial in helping us prioritize and focus our work. I can’t imagine delivering this product without the tremendous cooperation we enjoyed from so many of you as well as developers and partners.
That said, we’re not done. Even as we put the finishing touches on Windows Vista and release all the remaining language versions of IE7, we have already started work on the next versions of Internet Explorer. We’ll post more here soon about our plans for the product and our plans for listening to you.
Thanks,
Dean Hachamovitch
General Manager
Comments
- Anonymous
October 18, 2006
Dean - Let me be amongst the first to congratulate you and your team for their extremely hard work in this release. Something that often goes unmentioned, but is very important, is the release of JScript 5.7, which has seen some significant performance improvements. Thanks to all of your team for all fixes and performance improvements. Looking forward to much more frequent releases!! Cheers,
- Bill
Anonymous
October 18, 2006
Great to know! Finally. IDN Domains will rock now!Anonymous
October 18, 2006
I have a test computer with english Windows XP Pro+MUI installed, and right after I've installed Internet Explorer 7, the MUI is always in english everywhere in Windows. Will there be an MUI update for Corporation before this is widely distributed ? It's going to be a puzzle if it's not.Anonymous
October 18, 2006
Now that you took that off your backs ( I can't imagine what a burden that was... ), you should take your time to carefully plan, develop and deliver the much needed - incremental, hopefully yearly - upgrades. Now is the time to pay even more attention to web developers and to the needs of web users. You made a good start, but lots more need to be done. I can't wait to see what's coming next.Anonymous
October 18, 2006
It seems like scrolling is still messed up. Some samples: http://video.aol.com/ http://www.pcworld.com/ http://www.microsoft.com (yes, really) The scrolling is much less choppy in IE6. Is this an IE7 issue, or an issue with the websites?Anonymous
October 18, 2006
Thank you for your hard work! IE7 really rocks - the speed of the RTM build is incredible! As an IE add-on developer, IE is our platform that we rely on. We especially appreciate the backward-compatibility for add-ons you achieved in IE7 (toolbars should remain tab-compatible etc.). Looking forward to an even better IE8...Anonymous
October 18, 2006
Congratulations on getting this out the door - great work!Anonymous
October 18, 2006
Congrats. Good work on keeping it mostly backwards-compatible and fixing a number of old bugs, I still think it's only half way there though.Anonymous
October 18, 2006
Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP Available Now IE 7 just released Microsoft's IE Team today released...Anonymous
October 18, 2006
I'll update later tonight, but I want to get this out there now! Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP AvailableAnonymous
October 18, 2006
Thank you and your team for all of your hard work.Anonymous
October 18, 2006
The Web needs this. At least, the Web needs anything that improves over IE6. --oh, and finally, transparent PNGs on an IE.Anonymous
October 18, 2006
Congrats team! Software development is hard work. Thanks for striving to make Internet Explorer a better browsing experience!Anonymous
October 18, 2006
Congratulations on the IE7 release. As IE makes up well more than the majority of the browser market, this is a great advancement for all. In particular it raises the minimum requirements for developers as well. I welcome IE7, and eagerly look forward to IE8.Anonymous
October 18, 2006
Dean Hachamovitch has just announced - well, you know the rest.Anonymous
October 18, 2006
On Windows XP at least. Read the announcement on the IE Team Blog. It doesn't seem to be on MicrosoftAnonymous
October 18, 2006
Thanks. Now we can throw out Dean Edwards ie7.js (at least in IE7) ;-)Anonymous
October 18, 2006
Hi IE7 is great, i've been using it since beta1, just one thing with the final build install, it turned off my quick launch toolbar, when i turned it back on, the shortcuts were reordered, slightly annoying, but good work on the release.Anonymous
October 18, 2006
Congratulations on finishing IE7! It's looking great.Anonymous
October 18, 2006
As had been rumored, today's the day Microsoft is releasing Internet Explorer 7' finished version. You can get it at the IE home page. But it's not coming to you via Windows Update, as outlined in my column this...Anonymous
October 18, 2006
Internet Explorer 7.0 will not work with Army Web sites with AKO enabled and SSL. if i go to https://www.us.army.mil, i got error message below There is a problem with this website's security certificate. The security certificate presented by this website was not issued by a trusted certificate authority. Security certificate problems may indicate an attempt to fool you or intercept any data you send to the server. We recommend that you close this webpage and do not continue to this website. Click here to close this webpage. Continue to this website (not recommended). More informationAnonymous
October 18, 2006
New version of JScript? When were you planning on telling us this? We have been begging for new JavaScript and DOM support for ages! Thanks for being so transparent. NOT.Anonymous
October 18, 2006
Yes, now that it is out, you need to focus on one thing and one thing only. Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers! I hate to be so childish with this, but it is essential that you realize how important this is. If you don't know, ask Balmer.Anonymous
October 18, 2006
@Mikey: The USArmy site is using a self-signed digital certificate. To prevent spoofing, self-signed certificates are not trusted. This hasn't changed since IE6, though in IE6 we showed a popup warning instead of the full-page warning. You can simply click through the warning page if you'd like, or you can choose to trust the self-signed certificate by clicking the View Certificates link in the "Certificate Error" button after you continue to the site. @James: The changes to the JScript.dll are bugfixes and performance improvements only. The language itself has not changed.Anonymous
October 18, 2006
Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP Available Now Today we released Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP. I encourage everyone to download the final version from http://www.microsoft.com/ie. We listened carefully to feedback from many sources (includingAnonymous
October 18, 2006
Congratulations! I look forward to a bright future for IE.Anonymous
October 18, 2006
Remote Desktop On A Non-Standard Port [Via: Haacked ] Why Oh Why Couldn't WebPermission Be Part Of Medium...Anonymous
October 18, 2006
I think the best thing about this post is "we have already started work on the next versions of Internet Explorer".... Thanks and keep it up, all! :)Anonymous
October 18, 2006
Tabs, a simpler UI, "security"... it makes you wonder who is following who here. Mozilla certainly isn't one known to follow, that's for sure.Anonymous
October 18, 2006
I just wanted to let you all know, I downloaded it and am currently using it. What do I feel - its nothing short of AMAZING! Great stuff guys!
- Mayank
Anonymous
October 18, 2006
Where can I get the adms for IE7? Will the gps for IE6 work on IE 7? I like the new version we really need it those tabsAnonymous
October 18, 2006
Tonight Microsoft has released the RTM version of IE7 for Windows XP. You can read about it here , andAnonymous
October 18, 2006
David: You're saying Mozilla "isn't known to follow"? What, are you kidding? Read what the Firefox founders have to say about that. (Hint: Everyone follows, everyone leads. it's the nature of the game)Anonymous
October 18, 2006
Stop complaining if you do not like the product do not get it. Firefox, Mozilla, Netscape, opera, maxthon can be set as your default browser. If you do not like Windows get an apple or Linux I myself use UBUNTU and XP Pro (and Win 2K3 R2 at work)I like both (Will prefer Vista when it's out) so STOP crying ghoshhh!!Anonymous
October 18, 2006
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October 18, 2006
To: @Mickey (Did you read the FAQs in the AKO site? I guess not) http://help.us.army.mil/cgi-bin/rightnow.cfg/php/enduser/faqs/new_std_adp.php?p_faqid=11042Anonymous
October 18, 2006
Way to go Dean and team... nice work. I am digging tabbed browsing and especially RSS integration. Congrats!Anonymous
October 18, 2006
Will: The proof is not in what the founders of Mozilla have said, but in the pudding, the final product. Ask any web developer and most will tell you about their frustrations of IE's lack of compliance against W3C's web standards. Firefox among with many other browsers have had these standards well before todays release of IE7. Just one more example of who is following who here.Anonymous
October 18, 2006
IEBlog : Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP Available Now Windows XP SP2 와 Windows 2003 Server SP1용 InternetAnonymous
October 18, 2006
Congratulations from the InfoPath team! IE7 is awesome - thanks for a great release! -alexweinAnonymous
October 18, 2006
@James, JScript != JavascriptAnonymous
October 18, 2006
After upgrading to IE7 Windows update stopped working on Server 2003 (error 0x8DDD0001). Uninstalling Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration seems to help.Anonymous
October 18, 2006
Thanks for the update. We all look forward to a safer browsing experience for our users. Hopefully IE 7.0 delivers. The price is right.Anonymous
October 18, 2006
Evolutionary rate: Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 was released today. It's, uh, for Windows. Mozilla Firefox is due for a major rev soon now too. The last major rev of IE was in August 2001, about the time that Mozilla was taking over from Netscape Navigator,Anonymous
October 18, 2006
IEBlog : Internet Explorer 7 for Windows...Anonymous
October 18, 2006
I installed the new version and now Links won't open from emails using Outlook Express...just gives me a new balnk tab without even an error message.Anonymous
October 18, 2006
I figured out how to get the OE email links to open. Go to Start, Set Program Access and Defaults, Custom, then choose IE as your browser and OE as email and click OK at bottom. Apparently this resets the default programs and it works fine now.Anonymous
October 18, 2006
@Tony "Wolfman", Your solution ("if you don't like it, use something else") works only if you are a user. Developers are usually forced to cater to the least common denominator when building web apps. Any web application that will be released to the general public has to work properly in the least sophisticated browser in general use. Before today, the bottom of the browser barrel was IE6. Now it's IE7*. This is a HUGE improvement for web devs, but it is certainly worth noting that IE7 is still significantly behind its major competitors with regard to the latest and greatest web standards and features. Allow me to join the chorus of others on congratulating the IE team on a great job, while politely reminding them that we anxiously await any further improvements that they might be able to provide. *Well, IE7 would be the bottom of the barrel if IE6 wasn't still around. There's no IE7 for Win2K, and Win2K is still in pretty wide circulation. For me personally, this means that my apps will still have to work in IE6.Anonymous
October 18, 2006
I am disappointed that even the released IE7 still crashes Money 2007 when it tries to upload. Don't the IE people talk to Microsoft Money people at Microsoft? I can't understand why teh LATEST versions of each product fails to work with each other...Anonymous
October 18, 2006
Installation was smooth. I can see some improvement in performance too. Thanks for the efforts.Anonymous
October 18, 2006
Thank you! I was waiting for this a long time.Anonymous
October 18, 2006
Installation went quickly and easy.. Thnx for this release.. RegardsAnonymous
October 18, 2006
Congratulations team!Anonymous
October 18, 2006
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October 18, 2006
Oops . . . that "on a page " above was supposed to be something like "on a page that other browsers, including IE 6, render without difficulty, error, or even warning or any kind".Anonymous
October 18, 2006
While taking a few years off of new development, the IE team suddenly realized that Browser Wars II wasAnonymous
October 18, 2006
I've already posted my congratulations and overall thoughts in regards to this release, so with that, the official release announcement from Dean Hachamovitch, IEBlog : Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP Available Now Today we released Internet ExplorerAnonymous
October 18, 2006
@Brian Sexton: Please provide URLs for places where you're seeing errors only in IE7?Anonymous
October 18, 2006
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October 18, 2006
Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP Available Now For those of you who haven’t heard yet, we’re goingAnonymous
October 18, 2006
Windows 2000 Pro SP4 is not going to supported? Any technical reasons why not, besides EOL for Windows 2000? Thanks in advance.Anonymous
October 18, 2006
First Post ! Well, not quite. From the IE Blog : Today we released Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP.Anonymous
October 18, 2006
Wow, lots of stuff going on. It's 12:20am, and I need some sleep here soon, but I'm back from the IEAnonymous
October 18, 2006
Stan, they announced Win2k wasn't getting IE7 well over a year ago. IE7 uses new APIs only available on later OSes. Also, as you say, Win2k is out of mainstream support.Anonymous
October 18, 2006
Is it somehow possible to run IE6 stand alone and have IE7 installed, so you can test in both environments (because of the css changes)??Anonymous
October 18, 2006
Microsoft released the final version of their Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP. Visit the IE website:Anonymous
October 18, 2006
Congratulations, have downloaded & installed at home, I think it's looking great. Personally I prefer IE UI over Firefox, but I too would like to be able to customise the toolbar. Oh well, maybe in IE7.5 in 6 months time? :) Keep up the good work.Anonymous
October 18, 2006
Installed IE7 and it does not work, I simply have a blank page with http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=74005 in the address bar. Tried changing this url and no other sites will load. I thought it could be that I had the IE developer toolbar installed so I uninstalled the toolbar and IE7 and did the installation again. It still does not work! I had previously installed a beta version a while back, maybe that is part of the problem?Anonymous
October 18, 2006
I experienced the same problem as Mike (post: Thursday, October 19, 2006 5:15 AM by Mike)... did NOT have the IE developer toolbar open; did not have any of the beta versions open either. No way to get help, it just hangs.Anonymous
October 18, 2006
Can I assume that the download servers are just REAL busy or have been taken down? Because I just get 404 errors when I follow the download link.Anonymous
October 18, 2006
I need an easy way to test the web sites I develop with IE7, however as most of our customers will be on IE6 for a long time, I can’t install IE7 on my main PC. Can you please provide a package the makes use of Microsoft SoftGrid or otherwise that lets me quickly run IE7 on my PC without having to loose the ability to run IE6. (Virtual PC is a bit of a pain to set up, by the time I have install a copy of XP in it, and got XP activated etc.) Ian Ringrose (email address on website) www.ringrose.nameAnonymous
October 18, 2006
Any chance of a list of changes since the last RC?Anonymous
October 18, 2006
Great work to the team - I helped a bit with one single RSS problem, but they were quick to track it down and fix it. Now, when are you going to fully fix the CSS engine? A site that looks fine on a PC using Firefox, Opera, Netscape and on a Mac in Safari, will NOT render correctly using IE7. If you are going to pick your first update to release, then may it please be to fix CSS? Michael BaileyAnonymous
October 18, 2006
@Ian Ringrose Utilise the "multiple versions of IE on one machine" trick detailed at: http://tredosoft.com/Multiple_IE (or go to http://browsers.evolt.org/?ie/32bit/standalone and download the zips you want, unpack them in their own directories and make shortcuts)Anonymous
October 18, 2006
And here comes the nightmare :(Anonymous
October 18, 2006
In the latest epic landmark in the browser wars -- the shift from everyone in the world using Internet Explorer to some other browser -- Internet Explorer 7 has gone from beta to final way ahead of Mozilla Firefox 2.0's...Anonymous
October 18, 2006
Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!! IE7, I have been dreaming about it! I know we have the BEST possible browser available backed by a company that is the ONLY company that really cares about our security and GOOD online experience!!! I am in awe at the IE team of GENIUSES programming into the late (early?) hours under the guidance of the most excellent Super Geniuses of our time. They say good things take time and THIS PROVES IT!!!!!! IE7; I will install it everywhere!~ INSTANTLY I will be safe from all the badware on the net!!! Thank YOU!!!! I am throwing away all my other browsers and browsing with IE only! In honour of the supergeniuses that made this possible! Microsoft makes the standards, so move over everyone else!!!!!! Glassy tabs and antiphish for one and all!!!!!Anonymous
October 19, 2006
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October 19, 2006
Congratulations! As an add-on developer I especially appreciate that you have done so much to ensure backwards compatibility with existing add-ons. I look forward to updates and additions to the IE platform and improved extensibility in the future. Greetings from Austria, Vienna.Anonymous
October 19, 2006
Após cinco versões Beta e um Release Candidate, o IE 7 para Windows XP foi oficialmenteAnonymous
October 19, 2006
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October 19, 2006
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October 19, 2006
Where can I find a good comparison of the new IE and Firefox 2.0? Congratulations on this major update.Anonymous
October 19, 2006
Dean Hachamovitch, General Manager for Microsoft's Iternet Explorer uses his blog to talk about the firm's first major browser update since 2001. Today we released Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP. I encourage everyone to download the final versionAnonymous
October 19, 2006
IE7 roxors! Great work, IE team. There's definitely room for improvement in future releases, but this is a fantastic start.Anonymous
October 19, 2006
[quote] INSTANTLY I will be safe from all the badware on the net!! [/quote] Oooookay! And how are things on your planet? Well good on ya for getting around to this! A bit late to the party but hey... MSoft can afford it :) My vote was lost to Firefox years ago however! And I think we all need to remember that developing for PC with all the varied hardware is very hard. It's all but impossible to develop a binary that will work for ALL the different combinations of hardware out there. I think this is why theres all these predictions of consoles, with thier standardised hardware, taking over during the next decade. I mean I plugged a USB keyboard into my XBOX 360 the other day, it worked no problem...Anonymous
October 19, 2006
Congratulations on the release! As a web developer who has been frustrated by IE6's rendering/css bugs for a long time, I can't say this strongly enough: Please, PLEASE don't make us wait another five years for the next one.Anonymous
October 19, 2006
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October 19, 2006
Hello, IE7, both the beta and final version cause my version of Dreamweaver (8) to forget FTP connection information. That means that every time I switch "sites" or open the program fresh I have to re-enter FTP Username and Passwords before I can upload. This is becoming a real neiussance. Any ideas on how to correct it? TerrillAnonymous
October 19, 2006
Has the date been set when IE 7 is to be pushed out via Automatic Updates?Anonymous
October 19, 2006
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October 19, 2006
upgrading from ie6 to ie7 made my text extremely blurry and fuzzy. what can i do to get my text visibility back?Anonymous
October 19, 2006
Has the date been set when IE 7 is to be pushed out via Automatic Updates?Anonymous
October 19, 2006
I've been using IE7 RC1 for quite some time now and have been very impressed with the way it handles IDN, especially with respect to the mixed-script detection stuff. To see some real-world example IDNs in action go to http://IDNSearch.Net/Anonymous
October 19, 2006
Go to Tools, Options, Advanced, Multimedia and untick "Always use ClearType for HTML".Anonymous
October 19, 2006
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October 19, 2006
Christmas comes early for evariste.Anonymous
October 19, 2006
What a pleasant surprise. Longer I work in IT, the more I come to appreciate everything that Microsoft has done for the world.Anonymous
October 19, 2006
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October 19, 2006
I've been using IE7 RC1 for quite some time now and have been very impressed with the way it handles IDN, especially with respect to the mixed-script detection stuff. To see some real-world example IDNs in action go to http://IDNSearch.Net/Anonymous
October 19, 2006
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October 19, 2006
To all those who wish to complain about IE7's standards support, or anything else that 'other browsers handle fine'. Save it for your own blog. You're never going to be happy. Comparing FireFox to IE7 is comparing apples and oranges. FireFox isn't used by hundreds of applications, or by an OS. The complexity and development needed by FireFox is a lot less than IE. IE has its own rendering engine while FireFox borrows an existing one. Please, just stop comparing them. You're just making yourself look like a fool by doing it.Anonymous
October 19, 2006
According to IEBlog, we got the Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP. And by "we," I mean "ya'll," as I don't use Windows XP, but have fun with that. I'll be over here on my Mac, trying desperately how to...Anonymous
October 19, 2006
Copy paste of quite some features of the current Firefox... Probably IE will be behind quite fast again... Firefox improves its functionality by the day. MS IE only by the several years...Anonymous
October 19, 2006
One of the most interesting aspects of the IE vs. Firefox battle is the development of the ecosystem of extensions or add-ons. Right now firefox had a great advantage in this space but you can see microsoft trying to catch up. Microsoft has a interesting partner in Trailfire, a recommended download for IE7. See link: http://www.ieaddons.com/SearchResults.aspx?keywords=trailfire But this extension is also available for firefox. See link: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3524/ I think the ecosystem for firefox and IE will decide who wins this battle. What do you think?Anonymous
October 19, 2006
I've been using the following to test my client sites in IE7: http://browsercam.com I've been able to remotely test my sites and my client sites in IE7 while keeping my own machine on IE6 until I feel confident enough to upgrade. Congrats to IE on the release - looking forward to future developement. Cheers!Anonymous
October 19, 2006
Good job, guys!Anonymous
October 19, 2006
IE7 Run Once locked up the system, now whenever I open a new session I am directed to: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=74005 Which does nothing. Any work around. Since the run once froze it did not allow me to choose my search engine or perform any of the requested functions.Anonymous
October 19, 2006
As reported on TechWeb and other places on May 3rd after install of IE 7 links in Outlook 2003 messages are dead with default browser other than IE 7. Is there any fix to this yet? http://www.techweb.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=187200001Anonymous
October 19, 2006
Late yesterday afternoon, Microsoft released the final version of Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP....Anonymous
October 19, 2006
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October 19, 2006
If you're running Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 you can now download the release version of InternetAnonymous
October 19, 2006
I have admin rights on my windows xp system,but iam not able to reset the security zones.Its disabled for me. Any solution for this?..Anonymous
October 19, 2006
Right after installed IE7 (from RC) and rebooted, the system got messed up. The first thing I noticed is that there're 4 updates available via AU. When I update them, I got svchost.exe crash (tried twice). Now trying to use system restore to get back to IE 7 RC. Any ideas would be appreciated.Anonymous
October 19, 2006
I'd like to install IE7 for testing purposesAnonymous
October 19, 2006
If IE7 appears to hang, it's because it's trying to open the "first-run/run-once" page. I guess that webserver is sort of overloaded right now ;-)Anonymous
October 19, 2006
Jim Liu, I would have advised you not to install beta software on a production machine. I suggest uninstalling IE7 RC, back to IE6, and then installing IE7 RTM. If that doesn't work, reinstall Windows.Anonymous
October 19, 2006
i found the Yahoo! IE 7 version this blog was referring to. http://downloads.yahoo.com/internetexplorer/index.phpAnonymous
October 19, 2006
I have installed IE7. in internet options on the advanced tab I can see a black exclamation mark with a yellow background beside "phishing filter," with turned on automatic website checking. does anyone know anything about this, please?Anonymous
October 19, 2006
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October 19, 2006
I tried installing IE7 on other PC (also upgrading from RC). It went flawlessly this time. I think it's because I got Symantec Antivirus and Windows Defender running on the previous PC and I disabled them on the latter PC.Anonymous
October 19, 2006
Mike, thanks for the help. But I think the problem is caused by either Symantec Antivirus of Windows Defender. I also managed to solve the problem by running a system restore (though it said the restore was incomplete, but it solved everything. MS rocks). I guess disabling AV and Anti-Malware is important this time.Anonymous
October 19, 2006
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October 19, 2006
@techsdc1: The "reset security zones" button is disabled if all security zones are set to the default settings. @Terrill Dent: The DreamWeaver team reported that they fixed the "forgotten FTP passwords" issue in their 8.0.2 release.Anonymous
October 19, 2006
@UnexpectedBill: Yes, we heard the concern about Win2k support from many directions. We want the best version of IE available on as many platforms as possible. Unfortunately, IE7 relies on improved security and international features only available in Windows XP and later. Brining those changes down to Win2k isn't something we could really get away with, particularly since Win2K is now in extended support mode only (http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/server/evaluation/news/bulletins/extendedsupport.mspx)Anonymous
October 19, 2006
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October 19, 2006
With today's release of Internet Explorer 7, I would be remiss if I didn't inform anyone who hasn't yet...Anonymous
October 19, 2006
oh come on. firefox is better by a ton.Anonymous
October 19, 2006
Jim Liu: There's a bug in the Windows Update code. See http://swigartconsulting.blogs.com/tech_blender/2006/07/windows_update_.html for a suggestion on how to fix it.Anonymous
October 19, 2006
I tried typing Thai IDNs (e.g. http://www.สินเชื่อ.com) with IE7, it didn't prompt me to add Thai language. Neither did it prompt me for Chinese (eg. http://www.上海酒店.com) However, it did prompt me when I tried browsing an Arabic domain name (eg.http://www.طبيبي.com). Is this a bug that entering domain names in certain language such as Arbic prompts you to add the language but not Thai or Chinese? Kindly advise and please let me know when you think this can be fixed.Anonymous
October 19, 2006
Congratulations, team!Anonymous
October 19, 2006
Our friends from the Internet Explorer team are celebrating a major milestone - the release of InternetAnonymous
October 19, 2006
OK cool delighted to see IE 7 finally out of the woods. But for a while I have still to work with IEAnonymous
October 19, 2006
Congrats on the release! Looking forward to more posts here and future updates. :)Anonymous
October 19, 2006
Congrats on great release. Keep up the good work, and of xourse, we are already looking forward to IE 8 :-)Anonymous
October 19, 2006
@Aedrin: "The complexity and development needed by FireFox is a lot less than IE. IE has its own rendering engine while FireFox borrows an existing one." You just made yourself look like a fool; where does Firefox 'borrow' it's renderengine from? Wouldn't that be the Gecko-engine built from scratch by the Mozilla foundation (of which Firefox is a product) after Netscape gave up? I'd say that Trident is more 'borrowed' since IE is originally based on Mosaic which was only licensed by Microsoft from Spyglass in the time of the browser wars.Anonymous
October 19, 2006
I must say I am extremely dissapointed. I have always been an avid IE fan. I have never had a need for any other browser. But now I feel I must look for an alternative. I, the user, should be able to customize the look and feel of the browser to however I feel most comfortable. I was able to do this in IE6. So what if I want to fill 1/3 of my screen with different tool bars and what not, it's my choice. I do not want to do this, because I like to keep things nice and simple, but I do like the menu bar as I have been accustomed to it over the last 16 years, and I would like to have it in it's proper place in the upper left corner ABOVE the address bar.Anonymous
October 19, 2006
@Adam, et all: You can put the menu bar at the top if you'd like. See http://enhanceie.com/ie/tweaks.asp @trafficdomainer: Please elaborate? What languages are you currently configured to accept? (What's the Accept-Language header your browser sends when you visit http://enhanceie.com/useragent.aspx?)Anonymous
October 19, 2006
Eric, the ability to shuffle the address bar around should not be a "tweak". The last thing I want to do is download someone's patch so I can move it (even if you are part of the development team). FYI, you're about to get a flood of disgruntled users looking for their menu bar.Anonymous
October 19, 2006
Lot's of others have already posted on this and I'm late to the party, so I'll be a pointer for thoseAnonymous
October 19, 2006
If you don't like critics on Microsoft don't read further!rant>Well it has been a long timeAnonymous
October 19, 2006
Scrolling is still laggy. I can't believe you didn't fix this. It's a show stopper for me if I can't scroll.Anonymous
October 19, 2006
I would like to say i am very impressed with IE7 as with IE6 i rarely used it. I mainly used Firefox At the momment i am mainly using IE7 since i downloaded it yesterday. I think you are on a winner here. (Well Done Microsoft) Cheers petreAnonymous
October 19, 2006
Nate-- That's a registry key, not a patch. Click the link, restart IE, and you're done. Not rocket science. :-)Anonymous
October 19, 2006
Good to see the final release, but I'm a little lost as to what's going on when I try to downlod it ... Using IE 7 RC 1, if I click the link above, click download and then on the download button for the XP SP 2 version, I am taken to 'http://switch.atdmt.com/action/IE_7_Windows_XP_SP2_B' which is then blocked as it is in my IE restricted sites list! When I try and download in Firefox, it works as expected, giving me a download from microsoft.com Can anyone explain what 'switch.atdmt.com' has to do with the IE 7 download site? Thanks.Anonymous
October 20, 2006
Somewhat ironically, I'm probably the last person in the blogosphere to report that Internet Explorer 7 is finally done and available! Whew. (You can get it here.) It always feels good to release a new product (I've shipped dozens of products at MicrosoftAnonymous
October 20, 2006
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October 20, 2006
I have been using IE7 since it was released in beta mode. I am happy to see that it is now fully released. Congratulations. I have always chose IE as my browser of choice and now IE7 increases my liking of the application. The RSS feeds is a nice addition. Maybe you can consider (public and/or LAN) social bookmarking so all IE users can easily share their bookmarks, like within a public folder under favorites, which is available to all internet users or optional to allow it to only LAN users.Anonymous
October 20, 2006
Dan, it still can be considered a patch because it's not actually built into the software. A lot users aren't confident enough to mess with their registries (and for good reason). I hope you guys build this into the browser before you send it out via Automatic Updates. Another suggestion is the ability to change the size/order of the navigation buttons. I like being able to squeeze my Home, Print, and Feed buttons onto the address/navigation bar.Anonymous
October 20, 2006
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October 20, 2006
As most of you probably already know IE7 is now released and available for download. See the IE blogAnonymous
October 20, 2006
...but I wanted to mention that I'm speaking next week at the Ajax Experience conference - both my usualAnonymous
October 20, 2006
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October 20, 2006
I love IE7. 'till now, for every hour of standards-compliant webcoding, I could charge 4 extra hours to work around bugs in IE/6. Today, I can offer my customers three choices: I can make it work either in IE/6 (4 extra hours) or in IE/7 (4 extra hours) or in both (16 extra hours). Building a business on bugs. Keep the garbage coming, Microsoft!Anonymous
October 20, 2006
According to IEBlog, we got the Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP. And by "we," I mean "ya'll," as I don't use Windows XP, but have fun with that. I'll be over here on my Mac, trying desperately how to...Anonymous
October 21, 2006
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October 21, 2006
Yep it is true, good job guys you are even faster than Firefox! http://www.FirefoxMyths.comAnonymous
October 21, 2006
Public Defender Stuff (the news service for the Public Defender Investigator Network) updates their Guide to Every PD Blog, which now includes over 30 links. Looks like it’s time for me to go back and update my blogroll, and add some sites...Anonymous
October 21, 2006
Well well well - its here. But it doesnt work. Every time I open ie7(from the desktop icon or quicklaunch) it opens then closes. I had to use a link on my desktop to open ie then went and downloaded firefox. Any suggestions on how to fix it? billy_n2000@yahoo.comAnonymous
October 21, 2006
Wow! This is all sounding pretty cool! From what I've heard, it's almost as good as the old version of Firefox!Anonymous
October 21, 2006
please i am download the internet explorer could not setup start please internet exolorer genuine install and internet explorer startAnonymous
October 22, 2006
I can't believe y'all did so much work, but didn't bother finishing support for HTML ... how about the Q element, you guys??? Maybe you can do that as a hotfix someday (oh, and for IE6, too)Anonymous
October 22, 2006
Not sure what is with the current ad-centric trend at Microsoft, but I'll be holding off on downloading the final release of IE7 until Microsoft removes the "switch.atdmt.com" pass-through. Please ignore all those who are giving you trouble regarding so-called "standards". IE is the standard, like it or not.Anonymous
October 22, 2006
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October 22, 2006
Would Internet Explorer 8 need to be released before toolbar customization is brought back, or would this be able to come in a update/hotfix prior to that?Anonymous
October 23, 2006
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October 23, 2006
I found this commercial for the Internet Explorer Version 7 to be a little repetitive. You’ll find yourself intrigued and laughing at some of the things the red headed man in the commercial does but eventually find yourself wondering when it will end. http://www.caffeinemarketing.com/television-ads/internet-explorer-7-commercial-goes-stale/Anonymous
October 23, 2006
MSDeveloper team: either do things right or don't do them at all. Throw away garbage code and start from scratch. That's what sane people do. On the other hand, I guess that's not really an option for you, guys. It only took you like 2 years to do something resembling a nailpolish release (um, like, tabs and ... ummm ... that RSS thing and ... ummmmm ... bzzzt ... we're, like, fine, yeah, m'kay). So, whatever it is that you (are trying to) do, please stop doing it. Do us all a favor. Just let that IE disgrace die quietly and rest in peace (presumably on managers' desktops).Anonymous
October 23, 2006
I'm still wondering why I now have several problems with my pages using IE7 final, that I didn't have in the RC. Grrrrrr......Anonymous
October 23, 2006
I Installed IE7 is very good, but tha files .CHM don't work after install the Realese Version. Someone know anything about this bug?Anonymous
October 23, 2006
Hey guys, it's been a long wait and I've come across some problems, but whatever else comes about, IE7 is definitely an improvement over IE6. As a web developer, yes, I have gripes. Yes, I've seen issues with rendering. Yes, I've been reading about the IE/OE mhtml issue. I will still be using FF as my main browser. But I'm still grateful that you guys have put in the effort to release a marked improvement over IE6. Thanks. It was way too long to wait.Anonymous
October 23, 2006
Just in case you missed it somehow, we released IE7 last Wednesday . In the first four days over threeAnonymous
October 23, 2006
Looks good, shame it doesn't really seem to offer anything that Firefox wasn't already providing. Anyone who knows both browsers well see anything to recommend IE 7 over FF 1.5?? Note, this is not an invitation to start flaming, rather a serious question looking for serious, thoughtful answersAnonymous
October 23, 2006
IE7 , still buggy, will not stop me from using FireFox as my browser of choice. How long do we think it will be before the first of many bug fixes and patches need to be issued ? time will tell...Anonymous
October 23, 2006
>>>> Yep it is true, good job guys you are even faster than Firefox! LOL ! some people are SO gullible !! it may be faster than FireFox.. but so what if it does not work. It is still NOT w3C standards complaint. 5 years in the making, and this browser still does deliver a standard browsign experience that FireFox, Opera, and even Netscape 8 have done so for years now. Developers will still loath it. The public still gets an inferior product.Anonymous
October 24, 2006
As an avid Firefox user, I can definitely say that IE7 is a huge step in the right direction. I've upgraded all my PC's with IE7, and will hopefully be moving all of our users to IE7 at work after I've tested it some more. I still use Firefox myself, and encourage others to use Firefox, but those who won't upgrade to IE7 just because they hate IE6 don't make sense to me... if you don't like IE6 then upgrade! This is a great product and once again a step in the right direction. I'll be using it for at least a week straight to see what I think of it, but already I like it, and adjustable margins in print preview are awesome! Can we expect this as a common dialog in Vista?Anonymous
October 24, 2006
Den lnge ventede version 7 af Microsofts browser Internet Explorer er nu blevet frigivet, om end kun p engelsk. Man kan lse om den p IEBlog og den kan downloades fra http://www.microsoft.com/ie. Den nye version skulle vre sikrere og mere brugervenAnonymous
October 25, 2006
how nice... installed ie7 and all it does is keep crashing...Anonymous
October 25, 2006
I don’t understand... is it difficult to make possibility to add "History" button near all buttons? Even Firefox have such. It is uncomfortable anytime use to Ctrl+H or browse through menu to enable “History” panel many times in a day. Even more... Microsoft could make slim vertical “auto hide” tabs on the left side of the screen (History, Feeds, Favorites) which could expand on mouse over.Anonymous
October 25, 2006
Our brand new website, for which we paid big bucks, looks terrible with IE7. The website was coded by a professional development firm and worked perfectly with IE6 and Firefox. IE7 distorts the pages. I am now spending all of my time making sure our employees can't install IE7. My wife's company (> 10,00 employees) has already banned IE7 and has warned people to not install it our their home PCs. They also use SAP which doesn't work with IE7. This is a disaster! How could Microsoft make so many mistakes with this?Anonymous
October 25, 2006
Bruce: What's the URL? Just because you "paid big bucks" for it doesn't mean that it's valid HTML. Since IE7 has been available in public beta and RC for many months now, you should probably go talk to the "professional development firm" about why they need to give you your big bucks back.Anonymous
October 26, 2006
I've had a number of people ask me about Internet Explorer 7, which was released last week . It is currentlyAnonymous
October 27, 2006
Wow, what a week it's been. It's funny, I remember when Keith moved upstairs to marketing, I watchedAnonymous
October 28, 2006
When I install IE7 beta2 it causes Outlook 2003 to hang and it stops responding! Anyone else have this issue?Anonymous
October 29, 2006
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October 29, 2006
Pleeeeese!, can you tell me how to move the refresh and stop buttons to the left of the address bar? From usability point of view this is the wrong place for it as it requires the user to move their mouse from the left of the page to right when using the back and forward buttons and typing in addresses. It also goes against the design rules that you have already defined in previous versions. You have split up all the browser control buttons into three completly different locations; Back & forward buttons are top left, refresh and stop are now top right and the home button for reasons only known to yourselves is now bottom right. Can someone tell me how this improves my user experience?Anonymous
October 29, 2006
According to the Register, Microsoft is finally releasing Internet Explorer 7. Needless to say, I will be sticking with Firefox, which has had for a long time all of the features that IE7 will have. Update (10/29/06): Surprise! It seems that the nAnonymous
October 30, 2006
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November 01, 2006
Disappointing. Still last in the pack - way behind Safari, Opera and Firefox. Slow start up time, slow rendering. Disappointing. Verdict: Must try harder. No innovation.Anonymous
November 07, 2006
Since we announced the release of IE7, we’ve noticed many questions and discussion about how well theAnonymous
November 07, 2006
Kelly Ford from Microsoft chimes in on the IE Blog all about the current state of screen readers withAnonymous
November 07, 2006
Since we announced the release of IE7, we’ve noticed many questions and discussion about how well the program works with various screen readers and screen enlargers on the net. We wanted to provide the latest information we have from the various manufacturersAnonymous
November 08, 2006
As you may have seen on the Windows Vista blog , we released Windows Vista to manufacturing today! Wahoo!!!Anonymous
November 08, 2006
Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP Windows Media Player 11 for Windows XP .NET Framework 3.0 Office SystemAnonymous
December 18, 2006
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November 17, 2007
Δημοσιεύτηκε στο weblog της ομάδας ανάπτυξης του Internet Explorer ότι είναι πλέον διαθέσιμη η έκδοσηAnonymous
January 21, 2008
It's that time of year again - time to renew our Microsoft Partner Certification. I hate this process.