October 18th, 2006
Internet Explorer 7 — Start Your Download Engines
By Michael Santo
Executive Editor, RealTechNews
Looks like my earlier info was right. As I wrote earlier, Internet Explorer 7 (Final) has been released for download. I had a feeling this was going to be the case since I was invited to a dinner tonight with the IE7 team.
We Say: Strangely, at the time of this writing, it’s not showing up on Microsoft’s own IE7 page. It still says RC1. However, you can download a Yahoo! Optimized version (which means a lot of extra Yahoo! stuff, right) from FileForum, or SoftPedia has a generic version. I’m sure more download sites will show up shortly.
Soon as I installed it, I found I could no longer use Maxthon. It crashes just about every time. This didn’t happen with the Beta. Oh, well. I may be forced to make a complete switch.
Update: Microsoft has updated their website and you can now get the download straight from them.
比特客栈的文艺复兴 says:
IE7正式放出？哼哼，Yahoo的市场意识不错。…
IE7这摊事情很简单，无须我多说废话了。
然而Yahoo!抢先一步放出IE7的完整版（啊Yahoo加强版才对）实在让我惊讶，这到底是微软提前和Yahoo商量好的事情呢？还是Yahoo不理会商业秘密，坚决通…
October 18th, 2006 at 2:46 pm
比特客栈的文艺复兴 says:
IE7，Oh my God you are already here … but at Yahoo ?…
There really isn’t much to say about this.
I think people should all know IE7 is much hotter than its predecessor by now.
But what I don’t really expect is M$ let Y! to win the top prize here.
6 years, all the waiting press…
October 18th, 2006 at 2:46 pm
Yan says:
Just a quick recommendation to our readers: Wait a few days before setting it up on your boxes, and browse the blogosphere to get people’s impression on the new release. One can never be too careful with new products, even if they were extensively tested previously.
October 18th, 2006 at 4:38 pm
IE7 final released - Hondaswap says:
[…] IE7 final released Alice Hill’s Real Tech News - Independent Tech Blog Archive Internet Explorer 7 — Start Your Download Engines as much as i hate IE, and encourage all of you to run firefox…. if you don’t want to make the move, at least upgrade to ie7. its loads more better than ie6, although, still lackluster in a lot of areas….. but hey, its better than nothing. __________________ Please don’t PM/Email/IM me for technical support. Make a Post!!! Be Financially Smart! Join SavingsTalk!! […]
October 18th, 2006 at 10:38 pm
Bill says:
I doing all of my blogging on firefox, and most other things on IE7.
October 18th, 2006 at 10:39 pm
Pedro Cavaco says:
Ops!
http://secunia.com/advisories/22477/
October 19th, 2006 at 4:21 am
John Corliss says:
*GROAN* Now I will have to make the rounds to explain to all of my friends and relatives how to reenable the menus. Thanks for shoving this down everybody’s collective throats, Microsoft!
By the way, Firefox’s implementation of tabbed browsing is vastly superior.
October 19th, 2006 at 4:34 am
Sergio says:
Maxthon works fine for me after the IE7 installation. It still has features that I can’t do without like drag-to-search, ad-blockers… I hope similar things for IE show up.
October 19th, 2006 at 9:26 am
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October 19th, 2006 at 11:14 am
Alice Hill’s Real Tech News - Independent Tech» Blog Archive » Firefox 2 Due Out 10/24 says:
[…] Perhaps you browser downloaders downloaded the wrong “new browser”? Less than a week after Internet Explorer 7’s debut, Mozilla plans to release version 2.0 of Firefox. According to Mozilla Vice President of Products Christopher Beard, Firefox 2.0, which should be available on Tuesday if all goes according to schedule, includes key new usability features missing in the new IE 7. Source: PC World […]
October 21st, 2006 at 6:12 am
Alice Hill’s Real Tech News - Independent Tech» Blog Archive » Quicklooks: Internet Explorer 7 vs. Firefox 2 After a Week (or so) says:
[…] Nope, it wasn’t installation that was the problem. It was usage. And let me be frank … with only one of the two next-gen browsers. I mentioned this in my prior post about the IE7 download … Maxthon (latest … and it keeps moving so I won’t put a specific version) crashes silently to the desktop — and sometimes within seconds of launch. This didn’t happen with IE6 and I’ve used Maxthon as my default tabbed browser because I didn’t like switching back and forth between FF and an ActiveX-supporting browser (more later). More investigation at the forum at Maxthon’s website showed the silent crash happens to some people even with IE6 installed. But on my PCs (and I have a ton of ‘em), none of them crashed with IE6 and Maxthon. […]
October 30th, 2006 at 9:28 am