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Microsoft announces Internet Explorer 7+

Windows Internet Explorer 7+As I was saying the other day: More versions of everything! Over at IEBlog Microsoft's Tony Schreiner has announced that the version of Internet Explorer that will ship with Windows Vista will be called Internet Explorer 7+. Why plus? Well, while the XP and Vista versions of IE7 will have most of the same features, Vista's version will have a few extras like "Protected Mode, Parental Controls, and improved Network Diagnostics," features that the IE team that rely on components of Vista that aren't practical to backport to XP. The "7+" nomenclature is just to eliminate confusion when describing what version of IE you're talking about. Seems fairly rational to me.

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So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do. Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game. The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...

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