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Everyone who said there was going to be no IE7 is now.. wrong. This letter was delilvered to Featured Community Site Owners today:Featured Community Site Owners,
Today at RSA, Bill Gates talked about Internet Explorer 7. As the guy responsible for IE, I wanted to say a couple of things about it.
First, some basics: we’re committing to deliver a new version of Internet Explorer for Windows XP customers. Betas of IE7 will be available this summer. This new release will build on the work we did in Windows XP SP2 and (among other things) go further to defend users from phishing as well as deceptive or malicious software.
Why? Because we listened to a lot of customers, analysts, and business partners. We heard a clear message: “Yes, SP2 makes the situation better. We want more, sooner. We want security on top of the compatibility and extensibility IE gives us, and we want it on XP. Microsoft, show us your commitment.”
I think of today’s announcement as a clear statement back to our customers: “Hey, Microsoft heard you. We’re committing.”
Why are we talking about it today? Because our customers have asked us, with increasing urgency, what our plans are. We want to convey our intentions to our customers clearly and in a timely way.
I’ve gotten questions about the ship date. We know that feedback from customers and partners is crucial. We’re going to release a beta and listen, then refresh the beta and listen some more. We’ll ship when the product is right.
I’ve gotten other questions about support for Windows 2000. Right now, we’re actively listening to our major Windows 2000 customers about what they want and comparing that to the engineering complexity of that work. That’s all I can say on that topic.
Please know that the IE team is working hard. We’re eager to improve and better secure the web experience for the hundreds of millions of IE users around the world. We delivered on XP SP2. We are actively delivering on our part of a great 64-bit Windows client. We continue to deliver on security updates for customers who have not moved to XP SP2. We’re going to deliver on IE7.
Dean Hachamovitch
General Manager, IE Core Development Team
Bink, you gotta feel victimized after this announcement. You preached about no IE 7 for XP, now look. If I were you, I probably wouldn't make another prediction as long as I live.
No one knows the future of Microsoft products but its creators, but I have feeling we won't be seeing Longhorn anytime soon.
I don't agree. Our predictions were right for what we knew at the time. Sure, we were wrong, but that's okay. They are predictions - not absolute roadmaps.
I think it would be right this way.
Bink.nu was right in its assessment about no IE 7 for XP, but Microsoft was wrong in its assessment that the IE users wont need IE 7 until Longhorn.
And thus we reach here.[;)]
ps. i agree with you Tek.Especially because, in the software world even the best laid out and publicised plans for a certain period ahead could be completely overturned and nullified by what happens the next second after final decision making by the creators.
IE7 was never planned before this announcement even in December 2004, Micosoft declined working on a new IE7.
This is a new dicission/strategy.
Bink.nu was not wrong...
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I have been using IE6 since it's release and have not had any problems - yeah sure patches and updates have been installed but that's the way things are sometimes.
I installed FF and used it for a month and was impressed with the tabbed browsing but came accross quite a few sites where content was not displayed properly. Personally, I have reverted back to IE, it has served me well all these years.
A new version is good news as far as I am concerned.[:)]
i am with stepfaul on this i tried FF for about a month, and some sites i visited did not display properly or gave me redirection errors. The tabbed browsing was nice and some of the extensions were too, but im back to IE now, cant wait to jump onboard IE7.
Well I am glad that IE is more forgiving, this amounts to a more pleasurable browing experience for me!
I do agree that some of the pages I visited using FF where coded without thought to what browser might have been used and were geared towards IE.
As stated, I was happy with FF but am happier with IE, if people choose to criticise IE because of it's flaws I would say reverse the situation and make FF the dominent browser and see how many flaws people would have found in FF over the years.