Microsoft tries to battle back from a diminishing market share this week after releasing Internet Explorer 7. This version is available now on Microsoft's website at: IE7 download and will be released to the general public via a Service Pack 2 for Windows XP in November.
A good review of what is in this release is found in this ZDNet article on IE7. Basically they are trying to play catch-up with Firefox and Opera by copying features they have had for quite a while now. From that article: "On the feature side, Microsoft is playing catch-up in many areas. It has added support for Web standards, RSS Web feeds and tabbed browsing. The new browser also offers protection against phishing sites--malicious Web sites designed to trick users into handing over their personal information"
IE now has 85.9 percent of the market, an increase of 2.8 percentage points since July. Firefox has 11.5 percent of the market, down 1.4 percentage points compared with July. Firefox has also just released their 2.0 Firefox. I use Firefox and love it. Click Here for download.
I am downloading it now and will let you know if anything really goes wrong. Or maybe not - if it screws my machine up too bad I won't be able to post to this blog anyways...
You will need an update to AutoCAD's DWF viewer if you install IE7 - a beta version of this can be found on the blog of one of Autodesk's employees here: Beta HotFix via Autodesk Blog
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