SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. will release a new version of Internet Explorer, the world's most popular Internet browsing software, with new, built-in security features, Chairman Bill Gates said on Tuesday.
In a speech at a major security conference here, Gates said Internet Explorer 7.0, with new anti-spyware features, will be released for preliminary testing this summer.
The move comes three years after Microsoft, the world's biggest software company, launched a major initiative to improve the reliability and security of its software, which runs on about 90 percent of all personal computers.
I'm still gonna use Firefox though :icon14:
Microsoft also announced that the final release of their anti-spyware program will be FREE.
(after running the beta for the first time, I was so amazed what this baby does... that I ditched the Webroot Spy Sweeper I installed on my computer)
Their anti-spyware product does own, which is nice that it's free. Not that it matters anyway .
Microsoft should just give a few million to mozilla and implement the engine into IE/windows, would be much easier than updating IE as it's practically dead now.
PhoeniX wrote:Their anti-spyware product does own, which is nice that it's free. Not that it matters anyway .
Microsoft should just give a few million to mozilla and implement the engine into IE/windows, would be much easier than updating IE as it's practically dead now.
Im all about Firefox and all but IE is dead? thats news to me...
Anyone with any amount of intelligence dumped IE long ago. Its old people and retards who equate IE with the internet (mainly thanks the the fact most OEM's label the IE shortcut "Internet") that use that useless, broken POS.
I use Maxathon, which is a version of IE that's been hacked to use tabs and mouse gestures, so technically i still use IE, mainly because it does the job.
Yeah. I'm surprised they haven't just called it "msn explorer". I bet it will be full to the brim with excessive graphics and useless features designed for idiots, just like any MSN product.
4g3nt_Smith wrote:Anyone with any amount of intelligence dumped IE long ago. Its old people and retards who equate IE with the internet (mainly thanks the the fact most OEM's label the IE shortcut "Internet") that use that useless, broken POS.
92% of the market uses IE and somehow all of those people are idiots. Yeah...that hypothesis makes perfect sense
Well, when it comes bundled with the most used OS (thanks in no part to the very tactics that caused the anti-trust case in the US, and the currently up in the air case in the UK) it tends to be most used. I forget who this is though, Mr. "I'm a big IT guy, so if I've used it at work, it IS the best, no possible argument" Also, to rep, I hate to tell you, but one previously unknown man posting a bunch of charts broken up by large paragraphs of official sounding tests does not solidify some pay-browser's marketing slogan. Speed is not only hardware, software, and user-subjective, but is not the only feature in a browser. As a side question, you work for Opera don't you? Thats the most logical explanation for your rabid, assfaced support for a shit browser that charges people money for features found and used just as easily in a free product.
I've never said there is no possible argument. However, IE is a product which has integrated updates via an Software Update Server along with the OS and can be completely controlled via group policy. Among many other things the policy set includes the ability to easily configure access controls on which ActiveX applets can be installed and prevent users from making any changes to what has been defined as default for the browser. That translates into not screwing around configuring, updating, and supporting browsers at each station which saves my clients a good chunk of money.
When Firefox or any other browser can do the same I might consider deploying that browser. Until then, IE does well and is fully configured and automated on my networks.
Open source software is definitely not the answer to every situation, especially in a corporate environment.
eepberries wrote:Yeah. I'm surprised they haven't just called it "msn explorer". I bet it will be full to the brim with excessive graphics and useless features designed for idiots, just like any MSN product.
don't they have that already ? it's like IE with direct integration with MSN Messenger and a bunch of useless shit added into it. didn't hear much about it, i guess it wasn't too successful (although it is offered on the first boot of XP iirc)
PhoeniX wrote:Microsoft should just give a few million to mozilla and implement the engine into IE/windows, would be much easier than updating IE as it's practically dead now.
I wouldn't say that it's dead or even close. IE has a close following and alot of admin use IE when it comes to browsers because it's just easier. There are ways to protect around IE's flaws on a network and they usually standard procedure anyway for secuity so alot of this is a moot point. From a recreational/home user standpoint, Firefox is more popular but there alot of AOL'ers who know nothing but the "big blue e".
PhoeniX wrote:Their anti-spyware product does own, which is nice that it's free. Not that it matters anyway .
Microsoft should just give a few million to mozilla and implement the engine into IE/windows, would be much easier than updating IE as it's practically dead now.
you cans till get spyware with firefox though.
"There are no pacts between lion and men."
-Achilles, Troy
4g3nt_Smith wrote:Well, when it comes bundled with the most used OS (thanks in no part to the very tactics that caused the anti-trust case in the US, and the currently up in the air case in the UK) it tends to be most used. I forget who this is though, Mr. "I'm a big IT guy, so if I've used it at work, it IS the best, no possible argument" Also, to rep, I hate to tell you, but one previously unknown man posting a bunch of charts broken up by large paragraphs of official sounding tests does not solidify some pay-browser's marketing slogan. Speed is not only hardware, software, and user-subjective, but is not the only feature in a browser. As a side question, you work for Opera don't you? Thats the most logical explanation for your rabid, assfaced support for a shit browser that charges people money for features found and used just as easily in a free product.
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