Good, Microsoft. Very good.

That is if you're planning on building your UI to replicate the OS X. Well, in this case Safari RSS. But in the final version of Longhorn, who knows?

Because somebody invented the wheel, another car cannot uses it?

Jesus, look at the height of the combined top bars, it's horrible, nasty misuse of screen real estate :/ I'll be sticking to firefox

What? Why cant Microsoft stick to their own GUI design guidelines and not put the damn menubar below the address bar and tabs. Contrary to Microsofts belief, rearranging the bars like that does not increase usability. I think they are just running out of ways to do things and rearrange everything so it looks new.

You cretins, you can move the toolbars and menubar around any way you please in the current version of IE, and you will be able to in the next version. It's just arranged that way in that particular screen capture.

Thats worse that IE 6, looks awful!

Why don't they just add a button that creates a popup window like what I'm using to write this message?

hmm. All of you commented on how it looks. You all sound like women that would choose a car on how it looks and not by looking under the hood. I am insterested in IE engine changes and not the interface since there are already tools that use IE engine with a powerfull interface for and users, maxthon.

Good news for IE engine lovers: It is slowly cathching up. With this pace IE will be at level with all other webbrowsers in a year or two. IE7, perfect for the internet the way it was in the year 2001.

looks good, dam fan boys and anti microsoft people posting wtf the point microsoft can do what they want they do a eye catching gui and people start bad mouthing it sheesh give them a break... microsoft is doing this for free.... for everyone .. they dont have to improve ie but they are because of the users... so give microsoft a break


good work microsoft

Uh actually they do have to improve it to remain competitive with other browsers and OS packages like Mac OSX ;)

If Microsoft entirely removes ActiveX from this version of IE, then it should be good. The big problem with IE, is the ability to run scripts and executables without the knowledge of the user. Someone can get some form of spyware into their Windows installation, and usually users are unaware of this. Trojans can also be propagated into the system, as well as worms... through ActiveX. Microsoft's flagship technology, for IE... is really the main reason people don't use it. As a side note, the eye-catching GUI could do nothing ot make me use it, I use FreeBSD. As a former windows user, I couldn't see myself using anything but Firefox, Mozilla, or Opera on that machine anyway. Netscape seems just as bad as IE to me anyway... for different reasons (mainly extreme bloat in the current version.) - I'd like to see browser developers stop focusing on UI design, and producing better software. We see this with Seamonkey and Firefox, and with Opera... Safari is nice too, though I haven't actually gotten to use it. In my opinion, IE is probably the browser most people want to use, but I personally hate it, and have good reason. I hope Microsoft corrects the problems, if they do, their software will be jsut as compelling as any.

[QUOTE]hmm. All of you commented on how it looks. You all sound like women that would choose a car on how it looks and not by looking under the hood. I am insterested in IE engine changes and not the interface since there are already tools that use IE engine with a powerfull interface for and users, maxthon.[/QUOTE]

Hey... we are looking at screenshots, aren't we? So we're commenting the UI. If we were looking at the source (but we never will) we would've commented the engine.
:lammah:

Microsoft is on the lead... and innovating, as always
Way to go, Microsoft :P

anonymous: innovating? microsoft? lol :D
they just take a bit of firefox, a little from safari, copy some of the opera-features, add a dozen of bugs and there it is - IE7

Back in the day MS innovated alot, especially with web standards, now they tend to concentrate on other stuff, apparently... like security it seems like (which IMO is good).
So, MS does innovate, just, not as fast as before.

looks pretty sweet :)

@donKey
http://www.ipdonkey.com

Hmm. It think it's quite pleasant looking, IMHO.

Dear cretins,

I feel compelled to clear up a few points because it seems that you are not intelligent enough to deduce the following on your own:

Issue 1. The analogy of comparing a program's look and feel to that of a wheel is erroneous. If anything, a program's look and feel is analogous to the look and feel of a wheel i.e. spoke configurations, color schemes, size, et cetera. I shouldn't have to continue this analogy because hopefully you have the mental capacity required to be perfectly capable of extrapolating my point.

2. Considering that the only examples of Internet Explorer 7 we have to examine and comment on are screenshots, there is no conceivable way to comment on the browser's supposed functionality. As a result, the only thing a reasonable person can do in a situation such as this is to comment on what appears in the screenshot. In this case, the screenshot of Internet Explorer 7 shows Microsoft's attempt to clone Apple's look and feel by way of the Safari-esque RSS browser. In addition, you will notice that the title bars and confirmation dialog buttons identically mimic faux shiny plastic visual effects seen in OS X 10.4 Finder bar.

I hope the readers of this site are capable of enjoying such an eloquently constructed blurb as this.

Happy internetting, basement dwellers.

Firefox fan boys please shut up

Very interesting points everyone, well done.

you stupid anti ms people.......S.T.F.U.

....
you all stupid microsoft fans...
I can understand you to like Microsoft Office, or something... but.. BEING A FAN OF IE... that sucks...

Face IT. The new explorer will be a copy of firefox in its current state. Then there'll be a new version of Firefox, or Safari.. and it'll be... OUTDATED... they cant be doing copypaste all day!

microsoft do lots of things, firefox only does 1 tehrefore they can put much more effort into it

oh well... this is what i think about the new longhorn and the new internet explorer 7:

"im getting my new mac this week"

*sorry, i used to love microsoft, until i meet real computers...

as ive said before, you don't like ms don't use it, its that simple. You all b*tch about copies. so in that case, should all the free web hosts sue eachother because they copies eachothers ideas? hotmail should sue go.com which should sue yahoo which should sue gmail?? think about it you twits and shut the f*ck up. Thank you

Yep very similar to Firefox...

to HALikeimgonnasay:

"as ive said before, you don't like ms don't use it, its that simple."

No, it's not. When I buy a new laptop I'm forced to buy their crap preloaded. When I buy a game I'm forced to install their *** to play it.

"The greatest software company in the world" ? Bullshit. They are the scum of the computer industry.

80% of the comments here are from people who dont know anything about what they are talking about.

No doubt the design will change in the future before the release. So stop complaing and let people choose what they want insted of saying 'firefox rox, ie sucks its ***...ect'.

NO SE PARECERA MUCHO AL FIREFOXXXXXX????
Don't loocky so familiar to the Firefox web navigator?????
Mentase a Micrsoft en el orto!
Tks a lot

hahaha the hate for every microsoft product is unstoppable, suckers

microsoft KILLs THE TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH

god... plz stop it

the "IE 7" looks like Mac Browser Safari it looks as if M$ has copied Mac once again like history repeating it self (M$ Copies not Inovate)

U guys are too much stressed! Looking for senseless aguments to depress the Program... Go live for a while... U know:

- Internet Explorer bar Arrangement is always changeable... U can rearange the bars, so no Bug deal with the Address Bar beign on top... It may be the one that's presenting the software configuration.

- U dont even know how It works. For me It has nothing like Firefox... and I like firefox much...

- BillGates OWNS a small percentage of Apple Computers... so dont say they are copying... maybe the same developers are on both sides.

- Personally I just want security added and PNG-24 Native Support... :P

I hated... The bars in the top are ugly....

Firefox is still better. But IE 6 seems be better then IE 7.

Argh.....

OMGGG... it looks just like Safari... Damnnn
The Big Microsoft can't even make they own ideias.
They Really copied Safari interface.
What a Shameee

Firefox is open, free and functional. IE7 is closed, not really free (attached to Windows) and sometimes functional.

Firefox Is Taking The Web Back!

Well this has not convinced me to go back to ie. m$ will simply try to patch the security holes and in the process create new ones.

Secondly this browser just simply looks like a copy of firefox. the true m$ way to copy something and claim it as their own.

Microsoft: proof that you don't need original ideas to be successful

"- BillGates OWNS a small percentage of Apple Computers... so dont say they are copying... maybe the same developers are on both sides."

OMGHI2UBBQ!!!!!one!!!!!!!ONE!!!!1!!!!!11111

Did you just watch Pirates of Silicon Valley?That would be funny if it was entirely true.

"microsoft do lots of things, firefox only does 1 tehrefore they can put much more effort into it"

Lol...whatever. With the huge gap between each release they should have the most advanced browser on the market because they have had more than enough time to come up with one. Even tabbed browsing would be a decent start.

ummm, all elements are NOT relocatable. the address bar is stuck on top. :(

Microsoft will probably put MAC out of the PC business with this release. PC now has a nice interface, and is compatiable with 99.99% of all software. the other .01% is MAC only.

I just download this. I like it so far. It has a little more convienance with the tabs than firefox. True firefox has much more in way of plugins, etc. But give this time, Microsoft knows what it needs to do. Heck they have been working on this for a very long time.

Live to ride, ride to live!!! If you all got off your @$$es and got out to ride you would all be much happier

Posted By: badboymebill
Date: 10/4/2005 2:23:17 PM

So many young people not understanding, so many old people forgetting we all start somewhere and we get set in our ways. all comes out in the wash just use more soap. I have use all of the IE"S ,FF"S OP"S AND NETS"S and so on I have found all have flaws just use what you are happy with and let others growup and make up thier mind on thier own.

Hmm... The GUI looks realy good... I heard that IE7 will have a new security system.. They called it NextGen or something like that...

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