The big day of Microsoft became true - they released the final version of Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 during this night. The new version is the first upgrade to the web browsing program for more than five years. New features include tabbed browsing, the ability to search the net directly and an anti-fraud system to thwart phishing attacks. The new program is available as a free download on 19 October, but many will get it as an automatic update to Windows XP in November. The new version of the browser has gone through a long testing regime and five test or “beta” versions have been made available in the last 14 months. Despite this IE 7 is still seen as an attempt by Microsoft to catch up with rival browsers as it includes features that have long been seen in competitors such as Firefox and Opera.
But is it even worth installing this new version of IE7? For me, absolutely not. I haven’t launched Internet Explorer for months, Firefox is my default browser without any comments and there’s also Opera installed as a backup. From my point of view, they just implements functions already available in these alternate browsers. But lot of classic MS crap remained. And built-in search box for searching through Microsoft’s crappy search engine? No thanks, there’s still Google guys. And the last line? First exploit for IE7 appeared just few hours after the official release. Really funny…
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