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7 Responses to “Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 Released”

1. Marco Koch Says:
   February 3rd, 2006 at 1:09 pm

   The first Denial Of Service Vulnerability has been found in IE7 Beta 2.

2. Jesper Rønn-Jensen Says:
   February 3rd, 2006 at 10:22 pm

   Thanks for the link to our website. Please note that I’ve posted an update, as the method described in your link causes problems to some.
   Here’s a link to the update:
   “IE7 beta running side by side with IE6″
   http://justaddwater.dk/2006/02/03/ie7-beta-running-side-by-side-with-ie6/

3. Marco Koch Says:
   February 4th, 2006 at 12:09 pm

   Thanks a lot for the update! I have read your blog entry and it worked great!

   Regards,
   Marco

4. Jeff Says:
   March 15th, 2006 at 3:53 am

   I have no clue what they mean by improved user interface. Given the option, I would not upgrade purely because the new interface is ugly, unintuitive, and inefficient. If I couldn’t stay with IE6, I would rather revert to a text-only browser than upgrade to IE7.

5. Pete Says:
   June 18th, 2006 at 7:24 pm

   I have been using IE7 Beta 2 for about a week on both my portable and my desktop systems and hev the following comments.
   - The new interface is simpler than IE6 because it does less.
   - Tabs do not usually work. When I click on a link in a website it often just opens a new instance of IE7.
   - I really have no use for tabs anyway. I have lived fro a decade without them and I’m happy. They just take up space on the screen.
   - Classic menus are really needed if you want to save a web page to disk for later editing.
   - It searchbar is far too small and the address bar (which is pretty useless) is far to big and you cannot change their sizes. Why not?

   If Miscrosoft really ant to give us a neat net product then I have the following suggestion.

   Allow all the buttons and toolbars to be fully sizable and movable. Thus if I want the File menu included in the menu alongside the Hone icon I should be able to do it. Likewize if I want the search bar on the left or the address bar and I want it wider than the address bar then I should be able to do so. If I want to use the Google toolbar in place of the searchbar then I should nb able to do so.

   Why don’t they use this beatiful technology to make the thing FULLY congifurable by the user.

   We seem to be going backwards, not forwards.

6. Jens Meiert Says:
   April 13th, 2007 at 8:20 pm

   Well, “improved user interface” is not really true. It even starts with button usability, and that should be obvious. IE 7 usability’s worst of all IE versions ever.

7. Marge Says:
   April 25th, 2007 at 5:20 am

   IE 7’s usability is unbelievably bad. Who in the world decided to ship the product with the menus and some buttons hidden? Does Microsoft not have ANY usability people left on staff? I can’t imagine the number of support calls that this product will generate. Luckily, large IT departments should be smart enough to mitigate the damage by changing the default configuration before deployment.

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