Over on Digg there's a link to a supposed copy of IE 7... Er, I'm sorry, Windows Internet Explorer 7. Most of the folks in the comments were totally afraid to install it. Not without good reason, as it's a rar file, doesn't have the "new" title in there, and the logo is different. Oooh, scary! Being the brave yet stupid installer that I am (and armed with antivirus out the wazoo), I went ahead and tried it out.At first I was a little worried. After a simple install my machine rebooted and the C drive ran chkdsk. Ulp. After a successful boot and some ominous settings and registry changes though— it ran pretty well. Upon first launching there's a new warning to make sure you want IE checking all the sites you travel to, attempting to limit phishing scams. All the stuff you've heard about is there: tabbed browsing, the little search (MSN default, you can choose others) window, etc. The URL bar is now above the textual menus, which I thought was kind of odd. Google Toolbar, which had been on my IE 6 install seemed to work fine. The logo (under the Help menu) still didn't look right, as it was sans yellow swoosh.
In the final analysis this was probably nothing more than some quasi-legal release on the part of soft32. Makes me wonder if this was intentional or not...
[via Digg]
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8-25-2005 @ 6:45PM
david said...
hasn't the IE7 beta been leaked for a while, I installed it on my XP system a good while ago
it seemed ok, interface could use a bit of work though
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8-25-2005 @ 6:47PM
david said...
oh, and the beta was released before the logo change
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8-25-2005 @ 7:03PM
William said...
yeah, y'all are way behind...i've had this on my computer for several weeks. but it still doesn't match up to firefox and i wont be using it until it does
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8-25-2005 @ 7:26PM
hafa said...
you know what they said? once you took firefox in, you never turn back; variety is good, but not on this case.
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8-25-2005 @ 8:02PM
Juke said...
How to uninstall IE7 Beta
http://www.techenclave.com/forums/uninstall-ie7-beta-your-computer-6196.html
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8-25-2005 @ 8:27PM
Dominic Lague said...
#4, Conversely, one might say "Once you take Opera in, you never go back!", as some people actually do find firefox useless (I for one find it seriously lacking, and if loaded with extentions, slow. Not to mention that most extentions do not follow any one set of style guidelines, so there's no contiguous layout style).
One a more on-topic note: There've been a few major download sites with the first beta for a while. (I found it about four weeks ago)
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8-25-2005 @ 10:21PM
Retro_X said...
No need to install, just run it in local mode:
http://weblogs.asp.net/jgalloway/archive/2005/08/12/422335.aspx
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8-26-2005 @ 5:42PM
Fabulo said...
Mmm... RAR. This is the kind of download you should be testing in a VMWare machine. Actually, your PC would thank you if you used it to test all the millions of soft you download and install every day.
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9-06-2005 @ 10:09AM
SRINATH said...
THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I LOGGED INTO YOUR WEBSITE AS I HAVE SEEN
YOUR WEBSITES ADDRESS IN THE NEWSPAPER (THE HINDU).THE SITE IS GOOD.
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11-19-2005 @ 8:36PM
Snake said...
Can anyone send me a copy? I can't download it....
snake172002@hotmail.com
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