For those of you that want to have a look, I'm led to believe it's a full working version, but microsoft have called it a preview.

EDITED FOR SECURITY REASONS - Don't even consider it...yet!

no idea if it's any safer/better than ie 6 though, i will give it a run this weekend i reckon.

Most of the big companies won't allow over 5.5 on their company computers because of ongoing security issues, so I hope 7 is a bit better.

Use Mozilla myself now, faster and nobody (much) has been bothered to try to hack it or use security loopholes. Just MHO

What are the enhancements in 7???

John

Wasn't going to boot it up till the weekend but I just couldn't wait.

I'm also a firefox addict, (along with maxthon), and it didn't come to much of a surprise that MS has finally got round to implementing some of the old FF faves such as tabbed browsing, an easier to use interface, and rss support amongst a few other things.

Apart from that it does what it says on the box, and it is rather pretty in comparison to older versions and other browsers come to think of it, seems pretty speedy too.

Apparently it has greatly improved security features, which include 'site phishing' a feature which will help you decide on whether a site you visit is a spoof site or not, ie. if you followed a link from one of those scam ebay emails, then IE7 should warn you that it isn't the genuine ebay site you have visited, havent tried it but sounds interesting.

It is pretty demanding on my trusty old Tosh laptops resources though, currently demanding 90k's worth of memory with a single page open, and FF is only taking 44k with 11 pages open.

I wont blow any trumpets for it yet.

BangkokButcher wrote:Apparently it has greatly improved security features, which include 'site phishing' a feature which will help you decide on whether a site you visit is a spoof site or not, ie. if you followed a link from one of those scam ebay emails, then IE7 should warn you that it isn't the genuine ebay site you have visited, havent tried it but sounds interesting.

It is pretty demanding on my trusty old Tosh laptops resources though, currently demanding 90k's worth of memory with a single page open, and FF is only taking 44k with 11 pages open.

Ahhhh....so MS want a fee for to "certify" a site as genuine no doubt. Just think what can be squeezed from the banks, never mind Ebay. I've got to give it to Bill G, he can turn anything into a profit

John

Never thought of it quite like that, got to hand it to him then i guess.

Hmm, also just found out that it's changed the configuration of my machine , now when i click a link from an open email, firefox (which is my default browser) no longer opens a new tab, or does anything come to think of it, not even with ie7 set as default, i just cannot get the link to open at all.

I wonder why they felt it necessary to alter the scripts for outlook?!?

Ah well i'll have to resort to the good ol' cut and paste for the time being....

Jeez I hate these beta versions at times, but all part and parcel

Aha, yep, it's finally crashed and burned, usual old buggy memory problems by the looks of the codes returned

0x7c9118d2 - 0x006c0074

Piece of cr@p.

Sorry but my review writing abilities always take a dive when the thing i'm reviewing pi**es me off

BangkokButcher wrote:Hmm, also just found out that it's changed the configuration of my machine , now when i click a link from an open email, firefox (which is my default browser) no longer opens a new tab, or does anything come to think of it, not even with ie7 set as default, i just cannot get the link to open at all.

Ahhhh so he is targeting Firefox now? Hmmmm well a few years down the line, made hundreds of millions, pays a few million fine. Sort of reminds me of Netscape somehow....

Sean, thanks for the 'heads up'.
Will stick with FF.

Me too Bob, I'm a true believer in the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it"

I'll still take a look though...like Sean I can't resist it!!

Wise decision Bob, now where was that bookmark for the mozilla support forum....hopefully it wont take em too long to find a fix...

Well I'm pleased to say that the best thing that M$ done with this release was to include an uninstall button.

After hours of faffing about today, this was after losing the ability to send/receive email, open links from emails or websites and continuous memory errors, I got to the point where I could take no more and got rid of it, best feeling i've had in a while, i can tell you.

Bottom line, it plays havock with your hosts file...

Thanks for the litmus test, BB.

If BangkokButcher can't make it work then I'm not even gonna try it. At least, not for long while.

Sean, you were really able to uninstall the new version? A review I received on Febraury 7 began like this:

"Last week, the world finally got a peek at Internet Explorer 7 when Microsoft publicly released the beta 2 version of its browser. As Microsoft points out in the release notes, this beta is not intended for general public consumption; rather, it's aimed at Web developers who want to get a head start on testing their sites' compatibility with IE 7. Coding gurus can get the IE 7 beta 2 download...but the rest of us should definitely wait for a full version targeted to end users. Not only are there reports of plentiful bugs, if you install the IE 7 beta your machine won't be able to revert to an older version of the browser."

Note that last statement!

The phrase above of "plentiful bugs" was a link to here:

http://news.com.com/IE+7+bugs+abound/2100-1002_3-6034054.html?tag=nl.e415

Yep, uninstallation was easy (thankfully), I went in the my add/remove programs list in the control panel, make sure the 'include updates' box is checked, and there it was ie7.beta, clicked it, and all is fine again now I'm back with version 6.

Looking at some of the bugs that have been picked up, sounds like I was lucky with the ones that I found and reported...