[Merged] Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 out now

Official IE 7 beta 2 preview!

Here is the link to microsoft's website...
Link:Microsoft
This is real,get it from microsoft's site!

Hey,thanx for the link!

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Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 out now

Microsoft has released the next beta 2 version of Internet explorer 7 for Windows XP & Windows Vista, it will need a genuine windows XP version to even install,

the new Internet explorer provides many new features like tabbed browsing, RSS integration, a more modern rendering engine to get the market back from other such browsers like Firefox & Opera which are now compleately free & giving the Free IE some good compotition

U can download the Beta 2 version, directly from Microsoft, this time it's not the leaked version which came a few days ago, it's the full final official beta 2

U can download it from here

Remember, this requirs a genuine windows XP SP2 installation, & will work only on Windows XP SP2

since this is a beta software, using system restore before installting it extremely adviced

Uninstalling Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 Preview

To uninstall Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 Preview and return to Internet
Explorer 6 on Windows XP

# Click â€œStart,â€? and then click â€œControl Panel.â€?
# Click â€œAdd or Remove Programs.â€?
# Check â€œShow Updatesâ€? at the top of the dialog box.
# Scroll down the list to â€œWindows XP â€“ Software Updates,â€? select â€œInternet Explorer 7 Beta 2Preview,â€? and then click "Change/Remove."

If "Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 Preview" does not exist, run %windir%\$NtUninstallie7bet2p$\spuninst\spuninst.exe. You need to have "view hidden folders" enabled.

Nice I m a big IE fan

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its already been posted here
*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/viewtopic...a0&PHPSESSID=80655e6dc63eb65d1741e8dfd3c2d42e

Whoa !!!

Eagerly waiting for the Final release

Downloading the Beta right away.

Thanks a lot for the news.

thanx for the link .. gr8 news.

also posted here,
*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=37004

lol there are 3 threads for the same topic. mods plz do the needful.

I have a question .

Is this process reversible as IE is used by my dad for some of his work as its not compatabile on any other browsers.

What I mean is can I roll back to IE 6.0 without any glitches. I dont want to reinstall windows.

In the meanwhile I am searching Microsoft's site also .

Cheers!!

Ok I found the answer they say its completely reversable.

BTW thanks for the link . It will be good to try and settle with Microsoft once again.

Very Buggy...

Crashed 3 times in just first day...

U both guys forgot to tell that this is wrong section too.

Therad should be locked.

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U forgot this thread was posted before them

Anyway, it installed fine, as I have genuine Windows installation, but there are many things I hate it in

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The classic menu of File, Edit is now removed; it is now below the address bar, I wonder, Y MS is changing something which is not broken

The fonts in the webpage are automatically smoothed; with clear type which looks kind of weird on a CRT monitor, but one can live with it, just like the reading pane fonts in Word 2003

right now there is no option to add or remove buttons on the toolbar, like history etc, to access them go to Tool & then select or that star icons at far left of the tabs

The icons of the whole interface are now changed & more Aero like, & one thing for some reason, Windowsblind 4.6 & 5 both do not skin it

Page zooming works fine, u can select the zooming from the bottom right zoom magnification icon, so far no rendering troubles, but the rendering is dam fast then before. Another feature in Firefox which I loved was the text size increment option, by ctrl+scroll wheel of mouse, this works in IE 7 too, just in inverse scrolling way

The integrated search is a welcome addition, it works flawless, by default its MSN search but it can be changed by selecting any other search provider

The new interface will take some time getting used to

yeah finally the beta went publick... few...

*www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/ie7/ie7betaredirect.mspx

download

*download.microsoft.com/download/9/...2fe-f980d7cf3252/IE7B2P-WindowsXP-x86-enu.exe

I better stick to FF. When a final release of Windows is so buggy how on earth would anyone trust a beta release?
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ya, firefox 1.5 & it's insane memory usage, live with that

the skinning problem with WindowsBlind is now fixed, after recompiling the skin with skin studio, also so far it's working fine with no crash & even with maxthon

sometimes, it eats a lot of CPU for no reason

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me written a review of it over here
*www.shwetz-online.in/blog/2006/02/02/ie-7-beta-2-review/

also FF doesnt have an insane memory usage on my comp

planetcall said:
I better stick to FF. When a final release of Windows is so buggy how on earth would anyone trust a beta release?
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Try it before u comment upon the beta2 , and its not the final release so expect some bugs and compatbility issues .
if someone is a ms hater , he will never like it no matter how good the ie7 is . Half of the ppl who use firefox dont even know exactly what are the benifits of using it over other browsers , they use it because it sounds cool "Get firefox !!" .

I dont want to start a flaming debate on browsers , i just want to say that commenting on a software without trying it is not justified , after all nither MS or the FF ppl are paying us to promote them . So its better try them b4 we opine on them , an aware end user will choose the better product irrespective of the brand name and advertising .

indeed. But the presumptions are made on the basis of past performance. On the security point Microsoft and InternetExplorer in particular have been very poor. We all know the recent genere of flaws that has affected almost all the Windows Products. So why should anybody presume that this one is not going to be one of them or a career of the genetical disorder that Windows Architecture has ? Firefox may be slow on start and may be consuming memory but it is highly customisable, free, widely supported, OS independent. Maybe there are many more reasons for different users for using it which I am not aware of. Also, a defect in IE impacts the entire Windows due to tight coupling....whereas same is not true with FF.
Practically I am not a Microsoft hater. I do like Gates and adore the policies Billy has adopted towards india. I am very thankful for his efforts to push computer to the masses. But still on the technological point things are not the same.
I agree with your ideology that no one should comment on a software without trying it. But mine was a personal opinion and everyone is free to think their own way.

the main and strongest reason that Windows and IE have flaws is that they are the most WIDELY used. thats is why they are always targetted and ahckers discover loopholes in them. in the future also i dont expect real good security from ms products because they will continue to be the most widely used products. whateva ms does it will always get bypassed. no point in blaming them !! but i love their s/w

planetcall said:
Also, a defect in IE impacts the entire Windows due to tight coupling....whereas same is not true with FF.

Thats why i insisted to chk the new version b4 sharing ur view , many things are fixed in IE7 , including the one u mentioned.

tarey_g said:
Thats why i insisted to chk the new version b4 sharing ur view , many things are fixed in IE7 , including the one u mentioned.

Don't get too excited. You don't know what will happen in upcoming versions of Windows. AFAI can see, they did this only because they had just two choices in order to get IE7 to work on XP
1) Change the existing framework of XP's explorer to the new tab enabled and new look shell of IE7, or
2) Let the existing explorer framework of XP be the way it is and allow IE7 to install its new framework separately.

You can imagine how devastating it can be to fiddle with existing explorer stuff, so they have taken the 2nd more obvious and easier approach but we never know what they will do in Vista. I personally believe that they will go with a single newer framework for both IE and Explorer so that it will not be a liability to manage both old and new stuff...result? Back to square one!!!

Internet Explorer 7 in Windows Vista runs in isolation from other applications in the operating system. Exploits and malicious software are restricted from writing to any location beyond Temporary Internet Files without explicit user consent.

Microsoft was determined not to release IE separately. It was due to be released packed with vista. But the recent attacks have forced MS for a face saving act. Yeah Eddie! it is not easy to play with the already established architecture of Windows. IE is so tightly coupled in windows that decoupling would demand playing around with numerous other softwares. The worst thing I feel is that many softwares depend on the configurations of IE which make those softwares highly vulnerable even if they are inherently very nicely programmed. That is why with SP2 MS has deliberately blocked the default usage of ActiveX and several other vulnerable options. Though you may change it.
On my XP+SP2 I have configured IE to a very high level of security and use FF for browsing. I hope that it atleast prevents my windows from any attempt that intrudes through IE.

tarey_g said:
Internet Explorer 7 in Windows Vista runs in isolation from other applications in the operating system. Exploits and malicious software are restricted from writing to any location beyond Temporary Internet Files without explicit user consent.

That is not a feature of IE7 but the lesson that Vista learned from Linux. "Make people run the OS as normal users and not as admins". Almost everyone I have seen, runs Win XP as admin but Vista encourages users to do it differently which in turn makes IE to write to only temp files. As far as running in isolation is concerned...I don't think that is possible for something as vital as IE. You run it as admin and you'll be screwed just the way you should be.

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eddie said:
2) Let the existing explorer framework of XP be the way it is and allow IE7 to install its new framework separately.

You can imagine how devastating it can be to fiddle with existing explorer stuff, so they have taken the 2nd more obvious and easier approach but we never know what they will do in Vista

& how do u know this, do u work for MS, do u know how IE works internally?

only home users use XP the way u r saying, with Group Policy editor, XP SP2 pro can be customised specifically for a user easily

gxsaurav said:
eddie said:

2) Let the existing explorer framework of XP be the way it is and allow IE7 to install its new framework separately.

You can imagine how devastating it can be to fiddle with existing explorer stuff, so they have taken the 2nd more obvious and easier approach but we never know what they will do in Vista

Click to expand...

& how do u know this, do u work for MS, do u know how IE works internally?

NO its no matter what eddie knows , its just what he thinks , like this one

eddie said:
As far as running in isolation is concerned...I don't think that is possible for something as vital as IE. You run it as admin and you'll be screwed just the way you should be.

the registry and other dir's are off limit even if u are the admin , and u can confirm this from the ms site . also google for more info on the security features of ie7 .
:wink:

gxsaurav said:
eddie said:

2) Let the existing explorer framework of XP be the way it is and allow IE7 to install its new framework separately.

You can imagine how devastating it can be to fiddle with existing explorer stuff, so they have taken the 2nd more obvious and easier approach but we never know what they will do in Vista

Click to expand...

& how do u know this, do u work for MS, do u know how IE works internally?

If only you ever tried to know what happens under the hood of your system, you would have known about it as well *without working for MS* but I guess you were busy in fixing BSODs?

Anyways, just so you know IE7 introduced a new DLL i.e. IEFRAME.DLL to provide tabbed browsing while the older explorer uses SHDOCVW.DLL and BROWSEUI.DLL for its working. Now, either they could've patched the explorer 6 DLLs and risked screwing something major or introduced a new DLL. Took the latter and easier approach. Understood? Nice!

only home users use XP the way u r saying, with Group Policy editor, XP SP2 pro can be customised specifically for a user easily

Yeah and I am sure XP is not installed on many Home PCs. If users had that much of knowledge and desire to work their way towards security, we would have Linux on 95% of Desktops.

tarey_g said:
NO its no matter what eddie knows , its just what he thinks , like this one

Whatever...

the registry and other dir's are off limit even if u are the admin , and u can confirm this from the ms site . also google for more info on the security features of ie7 .

If you are talking about UAP then don't even get me started on that or I'll die laughing.

I am not going to take part in this discussion anymore because people who know cypher about their systems have started making silly remarks. Enjoy IE7. I am sure you people will love it

I dont think there is anything to laugh upon . User Account Protection is a good feature , the idea of users member of the admin group to run most apps in the elevated mode will add to security in vista . IE7 takes benifit of UAP , it will just not be applicable on the built in local admin account .

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Was using the UNOFFICAL BETA 2 release, had some BUGs!
G8 to knw eveything has been fixed with this offical release!

! BLAST FROM THE PAST ! :roll: