Windows 7 testers won;t have the ability to install Microsoft;s near-final Release Candidate (RC) check build of World wide web Explorer (IE) eight — a limitation Microsoft is acknowledging and saying is by design.The IE eight RC is expected to be downloadable by the public any day now. Earlier this month,
Windows 7 Home Premium, Microsoft made available to the public the (only expected) public beta of Windows seven.An eagle-eyed blogging chum of mine spotted this tweet (from a freelance writer/editor colleague of mine) over the weekend:A Microsoft spokesperson confirmed that the tweet from writer Robert Vamosi was,
Windows 7 Ultimate Key, indeed,
Office 2007 Product Key, accurate. Her e-mailed statement in response to my query:“It;s not really a ‘won;t work; issue as much as a ‘won;t set up issue; since it is a beta and the goal is to get feedback on the Windows 7 beta itself. (Here;s info on the IE create that;s in Win7 beta.)”The version of IE eight that is part of the Windows 7 beta is an interim beta release and is not the equivalent of the forthcoming RC.Microsoft officials have said the company is planning to deliver one more public check build of IE eight (the aforementioned RC) before releasing the last version of IE 8 in calendar 2009.The RC create of IE 8 is going to include new compatibility-mode functionality,
Office 2010 Product Key, which will make use of a list of heavily trafficked Internet sites that don;t work properly with the default standards mode in IE 8,
Office 2010 Product Key, and thus will default to compatibility mode with no user intervention required.How/when/if Windows 7 users will get a more recent test develop of IE eight that does work on Win seven remains to be seen. Microsoft is not sharing more details about that at this time….