Windows Vista and IE7 betas
Microsoft released the first betas of Windows Vista and IE 7 on Wednesday.
I'm not that interested about the Vista beta as it's still a year from release (Although there is a good review here), however I have been waiting for the IE7 beta.
Unfortunately, unlike initially promised, the beta has not been released to the public, but instead it is only available to MSDN subscribers.
However, judging by some initial reviews (cnet, zdnet, flexbeta) we're not missing much!
Although it does add some needed improvements, like tabbed browsing and RSS support, the UI looks very strange to me (Why on earth is the menu bar below the tabs???), there are apparently some stability issues, and there have been no improvements to standards support!
On the positive side, it adds a new phishing filter to try and detect phishing websites and report them to the user, which seems a great idea (if it works), and the printing support has been improved with 'fit to page' rendering to automatically resize the content so that it fits on the paper properly.
I guess this is a beta, so it can't be treated as a finished product, but it's a bit disappointing that after all the build up this beta isn't more impressive. I'll just have to wait and see what the final version is like when it is released later this year.
In the mean time, I recommend people switch to using Maxthon, which is a great browser that provides tab support, mouse gestures, and a whole host of features!
I'm not that interested about the Vista beta as it's still a year from release (Although there is a good review here), however I have been waiting for the IE7 beta.
Unfortunately, unlike initially promised, the beta has not been released to the public, but instead it is only available to MSDN subscribers.
However, judging by some initial reviews (cnet, zdnet, flexbeta) we're not missing much!
Although it does add some needed improvements, like tabbed browsing and RSS support, the UI looks very strange to me (Why on earth is the menu bar below the tabs???), there are apparently some stability issues, and there have been no improvements to standards support!
On the positive side, it adds a new phishing filter to try and detect phishing websites and report them to the user, which seems a great idea (if it works), and the printing support has been improved with 'fit to page' rendering to automatically resize the content so that it fits on the paper properly.
I guess this is a beta, so it can't be treated as a finished product, but it's a bit disappointing that after all the build up this beta isn't more impressive. I'll just have to wait and see what the final version is like when it is released later this year.
In the mean time, I recommend people switch to using Maxthon, which is a great browser that provides tab support, mouse gestures, and a whole host of features!
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