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Internet Explorer 7 Beta 3 for Windows XP

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Hello Everyone:

On Thursday morning (PDT), June 29, Microsoft will announce thepublic availability of Internet Explorer 7 Beta 3 for Windows XP. With this release, Microsoft encourages technology enthusiasts who want a safer and easier browsing experience to download the beta for free at www.microsoft.com/ie. Throughout the development of Internet Explorer 7 Microsoft has encouraged and listened to customer feedback. Although Beta 2 was feature complete and few visible changes were expected in Beta 3, as a result of customer feedback, IE7 Beta 3 contains some feature changes in addition to the planned reliability, compatibility and security improvements. Those changes include:

  • Changes to the look and feel – enabling users to add the email button back to the toolbar, reorder their tabs by dragging them to the left or right and scroll horizontally while zooming
  • Improving the RSS experience – IE7 Beta 3 now allows users to update all their RSS feeds automatically and allows more control to the user in marking their RSS feeds as “READ”
  • Improved compatibility and reliability – testing from Beta 2 has helped improve compatibility with websites and web applications, and reliability has improved through adjustments to several IE7 layout rendering bugs that have been fixed  
  • Important security improvements – IE7 Beta 3 contains all the security fixes addressed in the Internet Explorer Security Bulletin released June 13th.

For additional information, please reference the following resources that provide more detail on the features included in this build:

· IE7 Beta 3 for Windows XP Fact Sheet: https://www.microsoft.com/presspass/newsroom/winxp/IE7XPSP2FS.mspx

· Internet Explorer homepage at: www.microsoft.com/ie

· Microsoft Internet Explorer Blog: https://blogs.msdn.com/ie/

IE7 Beta 3 is available in English and will run on Windows XP 64-bit Edition and Windows Server 2003 SP1 in addition to Windows XP SP2. The German, Japanese, Finnish and Arabic versions of IE7 Beta 3 for XP are targeted to be available in early July. Please let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks,

The BOB Team