Microsoft Releases IE 7

A truly amazing event just happened this week. Microsoft has released Internet Explorer 7. No, you are not hearing wrong... it really happened! It has been a whopping five years since the last version of Internet Explorer was released. So was the wait worth their time?

Internet Explorer 7

A truly amazing event just happened this week.  Microsoft has released Internet Explorer 7.  No, you are not hearing wrong... it really happened!  It has been a whopping five years since the last version of Internet Explorer was released.  So was the wait worth their time?  Here are some of the features as noted on Microsoft's website.

• Simplified user experience
• Advanced printing
• Instant search box
• Favorites center
• RSS feeds
• Tabbed browsing
• Quick tabs
• Tab groups
• Page zoom
• Active-X opt in
• Security status bar
• Phishing filter
• Cross-domain barriers
• Delete browsing history
• Address bar protection
• International domain name anti-spoofing
• URL handling security
• Fix my settings
• Add-ons disabled mode
• Alpha channel in PNG
• Improved Ajax support
• RSS platform

We have been using IE 7 for quite some time now and have been excited to see some great improvements in usability and web standards compliance.