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Over on Digg there's a link to a supposed copy of IE 7... Er, I'm sorry, Windows Internet Explorer 7. Most of the folks in the comments were totally afraid to install it. Not without good reason, as it's a rar file, doesn't have the "new" title in there, and the logo is different. Oooh, scary! Being the brave yet stupid installer that I am (and armed with antivirus out the wazoo), I went ahead and tried it out.At first I was a little worried. After a simple install my machine rebooted and the C drive ran chkdsk. Ulp. After a successful boot and some ominous settings and registry changes though— it ran pretty well. Upon first launching there's a new warning to make sure you want IE checking all the sites you travel to, attempting to limit phishing scams. All the stuff you've heard about is there: tabbed browsing, the little search (MSN default, you can choose others) window, etc. The URL bar is now above the textual menus, which I thought was kind of odd. Google Toolbar, which had been on my IE 6 install seemed to work fine. The logo (under the Help menu) still didn't look right, as it was sans yellow swoosh.
In the final analysis this was probably nothing more than some quasi-legal release on the part of soft32. Makes me wonder if this was intentional or not...
[via Digg]
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Subscribe to commentsSnakeNov 19th 2005 8:36PM
Can anyone send me a copy? I can't download it....
snake172002@hotmail.com
davidAug 25th 2005 6:45PM
hasn't the IE7 beta been leaked for a while, I installed it on my XP system a good while ago
it seemed ok, interface could use a bit of work though
davidAug 25th 2005 6:47PM
oh, and the beta was released before the logo change
WilliamAug 25th 2005 7:03PM
yeah, y'all are way behind...i've had this on my computer for several weeks. but it still doesn't match up to firefox and i wont be using it until it does
hafaAug 25th 2005 7:26PM
you know what they said? once you took firefox in, you never turn back; variety is good, but not on this case.
JukeAug 25th 2005 8:02PM
How to uninstall IE7 Beta
http://www.techenclave.com/forums/uninstall-ie7-beta-your-computer-6196.html
Dominic LagueAug 25th 2005 8:27PM
#4, Conversely, one might say "Once you take Opera in, you never go back!", as some people actually do find firefox useless (I for one find it seriously lacking, and if loaded with extentions, slow. Not to mention that most extentions do not follow any one set of style guidelines, so there's no contiguous layout style).
One a more on-topic note: There've been a few major download sites with the first beta for a while. (I found it about four weeks ago)
Retro_XAug 25th 2005 10:21PM
No need to install, just run it in local mode:
http://weblogs.asp.net/jgalloway/archive/2005/08/12/422335.aspx
FabuloAug 26th 2005 5:42PM
Mmm... RAR. This is the kind of download you should be testing in a VMWare machine. Actually, your PC would thank you if you used it to test all the millions of soft you download and install every day.
SRINATHSep 6th 2005 10:09AM
THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I LOGGED INTO YOUR WEBSITE AS I HAVE SEEN
YOUR WEBSITES ADDRESS IN THE NEWSPAPER (THE HINDU).THE SITE IS GOOD.