IE7 to ship Summer 2005
In a huge reversal of the plans to not ship another version of IE until Longhorn is released, presumably before 2020, and then to only include it as part of the Longhorn release, Microsoft now has unveiled plans to ship IE7 as a standalone, Windows XP SP2 compliant browser in mid summerof this year.
Though the “official” reason for the change of heart is due to the obvious and well-known security issues involved with IE6, most observers believe that a big, if not bigger, spur for Microsoft is the rapid and effective market share increase of Firefox that just hit it’s 1.0 final release mark a few months ago. They had to take notice. The war is on, and apparently, Microsoft decided to get into the fight finally.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m not holding my breath for anything.
Source: C|Net IE7 story
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It should be noted that this isn’t standalone, really. It’s simply being back-ported to XP SP2. The same browser will go into Longhorn in 2020 ;-)
It should be noted that this isn’t standalone, really. It’s simply being back-ported to XP SP2. The same browser will go into Longhorn in 2020 ;-)
Well, in that context it’s not standalone but it is as standalone as any browser MS has released is. IOW, it’s not shipped exclusively with one OS.
Well, in that context it’s not standalone but it is as standalone as any browser MS has released is. IOW, it’s not shipped exclusively with one OS.