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A new Internet Explorer every year
by Jordan Running Mar 22nd 2006 at 12:40PM
During Monday's keynote
at Microsoft's MIX06 conference, Bill Gates turned a few heads by admitting that they had screwed up in allowing
Internet Explorer to languish for so long without an update. Duh for sure, but it's refreshing to hear it straight from
the horse's mouth. Gates said that beginning with Internet Explorer 7, set to make its debut later this year, the Big
Blue E will be
seeing a new version every 9 to 12 months in order to keep up with the quick pace of web innovation. Gates also
revealed that IE7 will include not only an RSS reader, but an "RSS subscription database," by which I assume
he means a directory of popular feeds. "The amount of RSS going on," he says, "is going to
skyrocket." Whatever that means.
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Nathan Weinberg said 2:34PM on 3-22-2006
The RSS database is known as the common feed list. It means that when you subscribe to an RSS feed in IE7, you are subscribing to it in Windows' common feed list, and that list is available to any program on your computer. You can subscribe to feeds in IE7 and they'll show up in Newsgator, and you can instantly change RSS readers at any time, as long as they support the common feed list.
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Jordan Running said 2:36PM on 3-22-2006
Thanks for the clarification, Nathan!
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tpp said 3:45PM on 3-22-2006
New version every 9 to 12 months. Boy, the phishers and other abusers of vulnerabilities will be soiling their pants right about now.
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Marc Telehsa said 4:02PM on 3-22-2006
I think the RSS Database is the Onfolio program that M$ had picked up a few weeks ago.
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Tank said 6:12PM on 3-22-2006
"...in order to keep up with the quick pace of web innovation."
MS is all about keeping up. They should try innovating for a change.
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El Desviado said 7:44PM on 3-22-2006
Explorer updated each year...
All I feel is fear...
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Geoff said 11:32PM on 3-22-2006
A new version of IE every year and a new OS every decade....
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funny pictures said 10:12AM on 3-24-2006
Download IE7 ver. 20.3.2006: http://windows.czweb.org/774_Microsoft_IE7_Beta_2_Preview_Released_for_Download
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