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Daywatch
MS finally gave us IE7 after saying it wouldn't be released until Vista.
This makes sense as Vista's release date will beyond Christmas and Bill fired his CEO over it. (Why they are putting out a second "Release Candidate" version of Vista right now is beyond me with such a late release date. Isn't "Release Candidate" supposed to mean "final beta"?)
Firefox and Opera et al. were making IE 6 way out of date and now IE has dropped to an esitimated 82% usage, down from 90%.
The most popular feature being the Tabbed Browsing and a multiple search box in the Navigate bar (rather than integrating it into the navigation bar and limiting it to one, or having it as a seperate toolbar).
IE 7 looks to have a quick tabs button which lists all the windows in one tab. I was told there is a plugin already for that for Firefox but I haven't seen it.
Since IE is integrated into the OS now does this mean tabbed folders? Didn't Apple do tabbed folders 20 years ago? What else does this do for the OS.
I expect IE doesn't have a plugin option as its not open source.
Also, pull down menus seem to be replaced by pull down icons. IE 7 seems to be a precursor for changes for change sake that we'll see in Vista.
This makes sense as Vista's release date will beyond Christmas and Bill fired his CEO over it. (Why they are putting out a second "Release Candidate" version of Vista right now is beyond me with such a late release date. Isn't "Release Candidate" supposed to mean "final beta"?)
Firefox and Opera et al. were making IE 6 way out of date and now IE has dropped to an esitimated 82% usage, down from 90%.
The most popular feature being the Tabbed Browsing and a multiple search box in the Navigate bar (rather than integrating it into the navigation bar and limiting it to one, or having it as a seperate toolbar).
IE 7 looks to have a quick tabs button which lists all the windows in one tab. I was told there is a plugin already for that for Firefox but I haven't seen it.
Since IE is integrated into the OS now does this mean tabbed folders? Didn't Apple do tabbed folders 20 years ago? What else does this do for the OS.
I expect IE doesn't have a plugin option as its not open source.
Also, pull down menus seem to be replaced by pull down icons. IE 7 seems to be a precursor for changes for change sake that we'll see in Vista.