Internet Explorer 7.0 is available for download in its "post-beta" stage -- which means, basically, that it is not ready for the market, but ready to be tested on a larger audience. Or, more specifically, that it's a Microsoft product.
They would kill in the pharmaceutical market... literally.
I'd love to give a more detailed review, but it's impossible because it cannot go to any site without crashing. In particular, it cannot handle pop-up windows; it cannot handle forms; it cannot handle... the Internet, in general. It crashes left and right. In fact, the only page it has successfully opened all the way is AIM Today, which smacks of conspiracy and monopolies, IMO.
The design and interface is much cleaner, but so different that it takes some getting used to. You're going to spend a moment looking for whatever button it is you need, because they have been moved and the icons have been changed.
The options are still largely the same with cleaner graphics and smoother organization. If this is a preview of the new Vista edition, it looks to be much cleaner and nicer. It's time for a general overhaul of the GUI, anyway; XP is just a cleaner look for 3.11, all the way down.
Stick with Firefox for now.
File Associations
It also associated itself with all my archives, including ZIP "folders" XP handles internally. I may have to get into the system to reassociate them because it doesn't give me any options from the right-hand menu.
Definitely stay far away from this one.
lol
Firefox all the way 2.0rc3:)
Seriously
Stay as far away from IE 7.0 as you can get! I upgraded to the "official" release over the weekend and it's no better. I may have to install WinZip or some other archiving shell just to get IE unassociated from my archived files and folders burned to CD.
Yes, I forgot to mention that: now all the folders read from CD show up as IE icons.
I hate Microsoft so much. Those people can't do anything right, even when they steal it outright from someone else.
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