Public IE7 beta promised for early 2006

by admin December 7, 2005 at 11:50 am

Microsoft’s next-generation browser inches towards a summer release

Microsoft plans to unveil a public beta of Internet Explorer 7 in the first quarter of 2006, according to a posting on the company’s Internet Explorer Blog.

“We want to make sure that everyone has an opportunity to try a pre-release version of IE7 and tell us how it works with their websites, their applications, their add-ons, and how they use the web overall,” wrote Dean Hachomovitch, general manager of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer team.

A first beta of Microsoft’s forthcoming browser was released in October to a select number of testers through the Windows Vista Technical Beta Programme, MSDN and Technet.

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