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"Bob" <goff1234@NOSPAM.ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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> While "Internet Explorer 7" is due to be released in late 2005 MAYBE,
no 2006.
> the name is misleading. IE7 is not a browser update. It is only a
> WinXP SP2 patch.
no it is a new version of IE, with feature and functional changes, in both
the versions on Windows Vista and also on Windows XP SP2.
> IE7 will not be available to install on any other
> Windows versions,
correct - all our other opertaing systems are out of mainstream support,
including Windows 2000.
> much less on any other operating system. In other
> words, Microsoft is dropping Internet Explorer, blending browser
> functionality fully into Windows,
no actually IE7 is more detached from the OS then previous versions of IE.
> in order to force their customers to
> accept Internet browsing as a Windows function in future versions of
> the operating system.
It is already that in Windows XP today.
> This leaves a somewhat odd situation for users
> of any Windows version other than XP with Service Pack 2 installed.
> Internet Explorer is already outdated, lacking support for current Web
> standards such as Cascading Style Sheets.
Yes and all those older version of Windows are no longer under mainstream
support
> The last real update of IE
> was in 2001. When Windows 2000 support ends (planned for 2010),
> Win2000 users will have an Internet Explorer browser installed that
> has not been updated for 9 years!
2010 is only the end of extended support. this is only for paid for support
for bug fixes/problems and not new enhancements etc.
see
http://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifecycle
for more about what we mean by mainstream and extended support.
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"Bob" <goff1234@NOSPAM.ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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> While "Internet Explorer 7" is due to be released in late 2005 MAYBE,
> the name is misleading. IE7 is not a browser update. It is only a
> WinXP SP2 patch. IE7 will not be available to install on any other
> Windows versions, much less on any other operating system. In other
> words, Microsoft is dropping Internet Explorer, blending browser
> functionality fully into Windows, in order to force their customers to
> accept Internet browsing as a Windows function in future versions of
> the operating system. This leaves a somewhat odd situation for users
> of any Windows version other than XP with Service Pack 2 installed.
> Internet Explorer is already outdated, lacking support for current Web
> standards such as Cascading Style Sheets. The last real update of IE
> was in 2001. When Windows 2000 support ends (planned for 2010),
> Win2000 users will have an Internet Explorer browser installed that
> has not been updated for 9 years!
>
> In a January 2005 interview,
>
http://news.com.com/Gates+taking+a+seat+in+your+den/2008-1041_3-5514121.html
> Bill Gates was asked about the fact that people are abandoning
> Internet Explorer for security reasons. He responded,
>
> "Well, no one invests more in security of their browser than what we
> do on IE. The key message we have for people is they should turn on
> auto update because if you turn on auto update....you can know that
> there are hundreds of very smart people who are constantly improving
> your browser and making sure that you're safe. And so with auto update
> and IE, you're getting the top security team and the quickest response
> team that there is anywhere."
>
> It's understandable that Bill Gates would want to show IE in a good
> light, but there's a comic irony in his statement: At the moment that
> Bill Gates was speaking those words, while the latest version of
> Internet Explorer was pestering people about downloading "untrusted"
> files, it was also being attacked by mere webpages
> http://www.techworld.com/news/index.cfm?newsID=2897, through bugs
> present in the latest update
>
http://news.com.com/IE+flaw+threat+hits+the+roof/2100-1002_3-5517457.html
> of WinXP SP2 that allow code to be run on a client computer by just
> visiting a webpage using IE. Those "hundreds of very smart people"
> comprising the "quickest response team", working "constantly" for over
> two months, had yet to come up with a solution to make it safe for
> WinXP users to just open a webpage in Internet Explorer.
>
>
> On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 11:53:20 -0400, "Peter" <ex-brit AT rogers DOT
> com> wrote:
>
>>Not that what you say has anything to do with this at all. They are
>>fixing
>>I.E. and have been from the very beginning. IE7 next year.
>
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> Bob
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