Internet Explorer 7 was announced recently by Mr. Gates & Co. The article linked to above details what little information was given in the announcement as well as links to a few reactions (some by Mozilla Foundation folk).
From what little can be gleaned at this point IE 7 is being pushed as a giant security fix. There's been little (if any) talk of improving the antiquated rendering engine. We'll see if IE 7 is merely an attempt to get some press and retrieve some of the recent Firefox converts, or if (which is very doubtful) Microsoft actually cares about supporting standardized improvements to the Internet.
I guess we'll have to wait until the beta's hit the streets this summer.
In the meantime Browse Happy and/or Spread Firefox.
Posted by TheIdeaMan at February 17, 2005 09:46 AM | TrackBackshew. for a moment there i thought i was going crazy. i thought you wrote a blog with a microsoft program as a title. it looked like the subject line was IE 7 or something another. but when i looked at it with mozilla, it just said "monopolizing uncaring world superpower: round 7."
weird. :-)
Posted by: david at February 17, 2005 09:39 PMYou rock, Dave. That's all there is to it. :D
I'm going to be laughing about that one for a long time to come. :)
I suppose I should be more careful about how I title my blogs. Don't want people to get the wrong idea. :)
There were some other Open Source projects that had new releases or their releases were announced earlier this week. I'll try and blog about those today to make up for it.
Posted by: Benjamin at February 18, 2005 08:12 AM