March fifteen,
Microsoft Office Professional 2007, 2005 2:21 PM
Microsoft World wide web Explorer 7.0 Specifics Start to Leak
Since it 1st revealed a month in the past that it absolutely was pulling a U-turn by releasing a whole new model of Web Explorer independent of Longhorn,
Office 2007 Product Key, Microsoft has long been unwilling to share several particulars about its forthcoming browser.
Will World wide web Explorer (IE) seven.0 have tabs? Will it comply using the Cascading Design Sheet (CSS) 2.0 regular? Specifically how will it make searching more secure? Will it ship in 2005?
Microsoft's solutions? No comment.
Microsoft has shared publicly that IE seven.0 will probably be targeted largely on enhancing security. Company officials mentioned recently that Microsoft strategies to create IE 7.0 available to Windows XP Support Pack 2, Windows Server 2003 Services Pack one and Windows XP Professional x64 end users. A initial beta of IE 7.0 is due out this summer time.
But Microsoft is sharing quite a tad much more IE 7.0 specifics privately with essential partners, resources who requested anonymity declare.
Resources say that IE seven.0 which is code-named "Rincon,
Microsoft Office 2010 Professional Plus," they hear is going to be a tabbed browser.
IE seven.0 will feature international domain name (IDN) support; transparent Portable Network Graphics (PNG) support, which will allow for the display of overlayed images in the browser; and new functionality that will simplify printing from inside IE seven.0, partner resources stated. The new browser also will likely include a built-in news aggregator.
(Coincidentally, or perhaps not, MSN just began testing a new Microsoft-developed RSS aggregator.)
Among the myriad protection enhancements Microsoft is expecting to include in IE seven.0, according to partner sources:
reduced privilege mode becomes the default;
no cross-domain scripting and/or scripting access;
improved Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) user interface;
possible integration between IE 7.0 and Microsoft's Windows anti-spyware service,
Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010, which currently is in beta.
Partner resources say Microsoft is wavering on the extent to which it ideas to support CSS2 with IE 7.0. Developers have been clamoring for Microsoft to update its CSS support to support the latest W3C standards for years. But Microsoft is leaning toward adding some additional CSS2 support to IE 7.0, but not embracing the standard in its entirety, partners say.
(This is an updated edition of an article which appeared in the March 3, 2005,
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