路人CL - IT 手記

I may not talk about cutting edge technology but try to bring out issues that may have far-reaching effects and long term significance. Of course, as a link to those truly important IT security alerts!

Wednesday, February 08, 2006

IE 7.0 beta preview 2

After users request, IE7 beta 2 preview has been released for evaluation.

IE7 requires at least Windows XP Service Pack 2 to install. So for others who still use W98/ME/2k, stick to your IE6 SP1 or Opera 8 or Firefox 1.5.0.1.

It tries to address the security concerns, tab browsing (like Firefox), improved AJAX (not the Dutch football club, but Asychronous Javascript and XML extensions used by new Web applications like Google map), improved CSS (Cascade Style sheet) support, RSS (really simple syndication, a dynamic bookmark technology that you can subscript to be informed of update of your favorite site) support and platforms, isolated from other applications - Vista version only.

Sounds great? It is still beta and has security vulnerabilities on its own according to some early testers. So if you want to give it a try, put it in test lab or DMZ inside your network environment.

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