This time they mean business. Not only has Microsoft posted another pre-release version of its Internet Explorer, inviting techies and plain old consumers to give it a whirl, the company's offering help if it screws up your PC. Toll free phone support for for consumers in North America, Germany and Japan (although today's release is English-only) ... "to encourage people who usually shy away from beta software to try IE 7," according to the IE Weblog.
By now, we know additional features of IE 7 include tabbed browsing (years AFTER Opera and Firefox did it). But this new release also promises better access to RSS feeds in the browser itself. No add-on program, separate Web site, or e-mail client plug-in needed.
And the closer IE gets us to RSS, the closer it gets us to Microsoft's support of podcatching. The next version of the Windows Media Player will certainly support podcasts.
The new browser will also let you use Google, or any other search engine, as your default search too. Hmmm ... MSFT playing nice?
The final IE release is due later this year. Versions of the new beta in Arabic, Finnish, German and Japanese are due for release early next month, the company said.
I hope the fact that Microsoft has done away with it's OSX IE, backfires. It's that kind of mentality that has cost them billions in
legal.
Posted by: Ed | Apr 25, 2006 at 10:35