IE 7 Beta 3 Release Set for August
Posted by Steven Parker on 03 June 2006 - 07:49 · 25 comments & 20520 views
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#1 Posted by mikey on 03 Jun 2006 - 07:49
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#2 Posted by Xerxes on 03 Jun 2006 - 08:14
- Sounds good to me, I was already expecting a Beta 3 for IE7 as I recall reading it somewhere (MS newsletter I think) so all should be good
I'm guessing IE8 will be Vista only? as I recall IE7 been the last IE to support XP (but then again, IE6 was suppose tobe the last IE for XP and look what happened there 
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#2.1 Posted by trip21 on 05 Jun 2006 - 11:31
- I think it will depend on Vista sales, XP sold extremely well didn't it? I don't think XP users will have a great desire to upgrade and I don't think business users on 2000 or above will have much use to, apart from having a few systems on hand for technical support. They're not going to release new versions of anything if the majority of customers can't use it!
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#3 Posted by azz0r_wugg on 03 Jun 2006 - 08:39
- God you'd think they're developing a complete os the way it takes them sooooo long to impliment little things.
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#3.1 Posted by Amavida on 03 Jun 2006 - 09:07
- Well on the bright side... Firefox/Mozilla can continue continue to improve & prosper if development of IE.x continues at this same glacial pace. For a while there I was a little concerned M$ might come out with something every bit as good & even better thus nullifying the great efforts of the community that worked so hard to create Firefox/Mozilla, but I see there is no danger of that hehe
Extensibiility, steady improvement & Rapid response to security issues keeps me off IE.x 99.9% of the time.
Combine this with M$'s policy of tyeing future versions to specific versions of Windows & I think many others will be driven away also IMHO.
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#4 Posted by powowcow on 03 Jun 2006 - 08:51
- I'm happy with beta 2. It starts up slow though
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#5 Posted by nezermundy on 03 Jun 2006 - 09:47
- Quote -According to an interview with IE 7 developers, there will be no new abilities to customize the interface, for example to put buttons and menus in customizable locations.
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#5.1 Posted by Jugalator on 03 Jun 2006 - 15:26
- Ugh, that indeed really sucks. I thought it was a beta issue. Well, I still hope it will be resolved sometimes post-beta 3 then. They can't honestly mean users to want an upgraded IE with features not there, but in IE 6 as well as competitors? There'd be no excuse for such a decision.
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#6 Posted by nw_raptor on 03 Jun 2006 - 10:38
- Quote -"Unfortunately, extensibility in IE7 is not where we want it to be," said Microsoft's Max Stevens, lead program manager in charge of IE 7's user interface. "We don't expect there to be many changes between now and ship, though this is definitely an area we're investigating for our next release."
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#6.1 Posted by Angel Blue01 on 03 Jun 2006 - 12:30
- Ridiculous.
Does that mean we're stuck with those discuss and MSN messenger toolbar buttons can can't useful things like print preview?
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#6.2 Posted by atkoj on 03 Jun 2006 - 17:23
- Yes, this is disappointing!
You can however alter all the toolbar buttons just as you always could in IE6. What is lacking is the ability to move the address bar, search bar, toolbar, and tabs bar around freely and to mix and match them. You're stuck with the combination of address bar and search bar on one line on the top level, with the toolbar and the tabs bar on one line just below them.
If you find Firefox frustratingly lacking in options for customisation (compared to Opera) then you'll find IE7 completely useless. However, this is BY DESIGN. Microsoft is aiming at the 70-80% of users who never customise their toolbars, and for whom the ability to customise is a disadvantage as it means they can get confused if the toolbars change. It's also (as anyone who works in tech support will attest) to avoid the huge volume of support calls when someone 'accidentally' loses a toolbar element.
It seems Microsoft are happy for the other 20-30% of users who need more options to use Firefox or Opera. Sounds like a good plan to me!
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#7 Posted by jimbo11883 on 03 Jun 2006 - 10:59
- Why can't Microsoft get anything right these days...
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#8 Posted by Orange on 03 Jun 2006 - 11:20
- disappointing.... yes very.
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#9 Posted by Daninku on 03 Jun 2006 - 11:36
- Wow disappointing. I have Firefox installed but since I use IE7 as my default I rarely use FF. But today I had a break and used FF and I can see a huge difference from IE to FF. FF is so much usable, it's so much faster. IE7 is just crap and if they're not going to improve this I don't see any future in IE. Good Luck.
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#10 Posted by j0j081 on 03 Jun 2006 - 13:02
- I wasn't impressed with IE7 Beta 2 to begin with ONLY because it seemed kinda slow compared to Firefox and Opera but after disabling the phishing checker it is just as fast. Most people here are smart enough not to need it so I highly recommend turning it off and see if you notice a difference.
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#11 Posted by SimplyPotatoes on 03 Jun 2006 - 13:03
- cool ie7 is nice
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#12 Posted by rIaHc3 on 03 Jun 2006 - 14:21
- IE7 Beta 2 messed up entirely my internet expirence/connection..... Most pages dont load and give a big error message or have missing pictures. I have to use that damn Firefox till I get some time to reformat everything and reinstall IE7 Beta 2....
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#13 Posted by b0m8er on 03 Jun 2006 - 18:30
- why is it taking them so long?
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#14 Posted by PatriotB on 03 Jun 2006 - 21:22
- The fact that there would be an IE7 Beta3 has been known for some time: when Dean Hachamovich announced the release of Beta2, he also said there would be a beta 3: http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/04/24/582546.aspx.
However, I would judge the "August" date as suspicious. The article gives no attribution of that date to any source. Microsoft has not yet announced a date for beta 3.
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#15 Posted by qdave on 04 Jun 2006 - 00:50
- ahh its sad to hear that tehre wont be any interface changes. sure its nice but i want something more
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#16 Posted by Viblet on 05 Jun 2006 - 11:38
- The screenshots for 'Internet Explorer 7' look nice, although from what I've heard it's slow so I'm going to wait until Beta 3 comes out then I'll give it a try.
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#17 Posted by dangel666 on 05 Jun 2006 - 12:55
- As much as i try to hate it, IE 7 does seem rather good... and i'm a Opera user )
Microsoft is preparing a third beta, to be released some time in August. The extended beta period seems to have been prompted by compatibility issues that users have found with the first two IE 7 betas. One such issue, described in great detail on Microsoft's IEBlog, involved a problem where the browser would sometimes reload CAPTCHA images (character recognition tests used to fool spambots) when a network connection was idle:
Eric Lawrence of Microsoft stated that "for compatibility reasons, we're going to revert to IE6 behavior for IE7 Beta 3 to prevent this exact issue."
The Beta 3 release is expected to fix problems with some of the new features, such as the integrated RSS reader. Beta 3 will add an ability to control whether or not an article is marked as read. However, don't expect any major interface changes. According to an interview with IE 7 developers, there will be no new abilities to customize the interface, for example to put buttons and menus in customizable locations.
"Unfortunately, extensibility in IE7 is not where we want it to be," said Microsoft's Max Stevens, lead program manager in charge of IE 7's user interface. "We don't expect there to be many changes between now and ship, though this is definitely an area we're investigating for our next release."
The final release of IE 7 is expected to be some time this winter, and Microsoft has promised continual updates each year thereafter, starting with IE8, which will contain new networking and rendering features