Microsoft releases IE 7 beta to public

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Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 Preview is officially available for download at microsoft.com. No, not the leaked IE 7 version...

 

IE 7 will only run on Windows XP Service Pack 2 at first (then later on Windows Vista and others). As only registered Microsoft users can use Windows XP sp2, this means that only genuine windows users will be able to run IE 7.

IE 7 implements some features of Firefox, that are available since ages on non-IE browsers (tab browsing, pop-up blocking etc). But they tried to add a new one : Quick tab shows thumbnail view of all open tabs. Of course, if you're using Firefox 1.5, you can install the Viamatic foXpose Firefox Extension, which does the same :-)

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