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IE7 Beta 2 now available in multiple languages

After endless nights and countless slices of pizza, the IE team is proud to announce the availability of Arabic, Finnish, and German versions of IE7 Beta 2 in addition to the English versions we released a week and a half ago. We are also on track to deliver Japanese versions of IE7 Beta 2 on Monday, May 8th, at 9:00PM PST.

You can download IE7 beta 2 from the following locations:

Arabic http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/ar-xm/betadownload.mspx

Finnish http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/fi-fi/betadownload.mspx

German http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/de-de/betadownload.mspx

In addition, all language versions including English, can be downloaded from http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/downloads/default.mspx .

To get support, all users can take advantage of the following forums:

Arabic users can also use the Arabic Internet Explorer newsgroup.

We are also happy to announce that phone support is available for German-speaking users.

Germany: +49 1805 67 2255
Austria: +43 150 222 2255
Switzerland +41 848 80 2255

Monday-Friday 8:00 – 18:00
Saturday 9:00 – 17:00

Please remember to uninstall any previous IE7 builds before installing this new release: Control Panel, Add / Remove Programs, Show Updates, scroll to the bottom.

Check it out and let us know what you think! 

Thanks,
 Tony Chor

Published Friday, May 05, 2006 12:23 PM by ieblog
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# re: IE7 Beta 2 now available in multiple languages

Friday, May 05, 2006 4:48 PM by nimbus

Is there a plan for another beta for XP? If yes, when(just month is fine)

When are you planning to come up with the final release on XP(month is fine again)

Thanks

# re: IE7 Beta 2 now available in multiple languages

Friday, May 05, 2006 4:59 PM by compugab
What about a french version of IE7 :(

# re: IE7 Beta 2 now available in multiple languages

Friday, May 05, 2006 5:20 PM by ivan
What about a Spanish version of IE7!!

# re: IE7 Beta 2 now available in multiple languages

Friday, May 05, 2006 5:26 PM by lhg123
Good job, IE7 team! I'm surprised you don't have Spanish or French, though, because those are two major languages.

# re: IE7 Beta 2 now available in multiple languages

Friday, May 05, 2006 5:33 PM by Yossi
Nu, why not a Hebrew version?

# re: IE7 Beta 2 now available in multiple languages

Friday, May 05, 2006 6:14 PM by Nir
what about the Hebrew version
hebrew and arabic are similar.. make a version of that too :P

# re: IE7 Beta 2 now available in multiple languages

Friday, May 05, 2006 6:30 PM by Simon
what about the Polish version of IE7??

# re: IE7 Beta 2 now available in multiple languages

Friday, May 05, 2006 6:33 PM by Maurits
Why not determine the next language by an eBay auction? :)

# re: IE7 Beta 2 now available in multiple languages

Friday, May 05, 2006 6:41 PM by ray
Why not have IE do languages in a much much much more sane way, .NET provides a nice way to this, it's just an XML file which you provide, and then you can change a preference in the application to tell it to use that one.

Nice thing about it, is that, then people can create the many different languages without having to rely solely on the developers to do it.

Hardcoding languages directly into the program is so 80's and early 90's, this is the 21st century after all.

# re: IE7 Beta 2 now available in multiple languages

Friday, May 05, 2006 8:44 PM by 168
What about a chinese version of IE7!!

# re: IE7 Beta 2 now available in multiple languages

Friday, May 05, 2006 9:47 PM by Tony Chor
We will provide the IE7 in all languages we have for Windows once we ship later this year, including all the langugages requested above (French, Spanish, Hebrew, Chinese, and Polish). These beta versions are simply the first ones we have localized and tested. We picked these as representative of some of the different challenges we face as we localize IE.

As Dean mentioned in his beta 2 post, we'll have a beta 3 release sometime before release.

-- Tony

# re: IE7 Beta 2 now available in multiple languages

Friday, May 05, 2006 10:45 PM by Johann de France!
And the French version?

# re: IE7 Beta 2 now available in multiple languages

Saturday, May 06, 2006 12:03 AM by Eduardo Valencia
How about IE7 in spanish, the spanish community doesen't count?

# re: IE7 Beta 2 now available in multiple languages

Saturday, May 06, 2006 12:58 AM by Salvatore
and Italian version?

# re: IE7 Beta 2 now available in multiple languages

Saturday, May 06, 2006 1:59 AM by PatriotB
Ray,

IE 7 seems to take advantage of Vista's MUI technology.  That is, all localized resources are in seperate MUI files located in a language-specific folder (en-US for example).  From what I understand, one of Vista's goals is that all the binaries are 100% language independent, and all localized resources are in separate files that can be swapped out easily.

Windows XP Professional has some kind of MUI technology as well, though I have never tried it out myself.  Supposedly you can set up your computer and switch back and forth between UI languages.

In any event, Windows hasn't had language strings "hardcoded" in quite a long time.  Yes, prior to Vista, they were embedded as resources in the same files as the binaries.  But I'm sure that the Windows development process has had tools to localize these very easily.

# re: IE7 Beta 2 now available in multiple languages

Saturday, May 06, 2006 2:07 AM by sam
what about the mozilla-based version?

# re: IE7 Beta 2 now available in multiple languages

Saturday, May 06, 2006 2:56 AM by free Japan
Japanese I am wondering.

# re: IE7 Beta 2 now available in multiple languages

Saturday, May 06, 2006 2:57 AM by japan
japanese waitng!

# why isn't my language available?

Saturday, May 06, 2006 5:03 AM by Freud
And why are you always attacking me?

# re: IE7 Beta 2 now available in multiple languages

Saturday, May 06, 2006 5:17 AM by bob
Oh my God! Why is everyone getting so annoyed about languages! They will release them when they can. Oh and I like the idea of using XML to make your own language file.

Bob

# re: IE7 Beta 2 now available in multiple languages

Saturday, May 06, 2006 6:34 AM by Syd
Thank you Microsoft. This is the biggest improvement to Internet Explorer in years.
I think it is absolutely fantastic.

# re: IE7 Beta 2 now available in multiple languages

Saturday, May 06, 2006 7:05 AM by Roland
Thank you for your hard work!
The German version came just in time - my uncle got his new DELL computer yesterday. And the first thing I did was installing the German version of IE7.
One of the colleagues of my uncle had lost 17000 EUR (~ US $21600) in a phishing attack, so I'm very happy that IE7 now has the phishing filter.

# RUR

Saturday, May 06, 2006 7:52 AM by RUR
And what about Russian?

# Predictable Reactions

Saturday, May 06, 2006 9:04 AM by Todd
I'm sitting here rolling my eyes at the ridiculous comments about "what about this language?", "what about that language?"

Tony said it's a kind of proof of concept, so just chill out, for crying out loud.  Maybe because this is a blog about languages you don't understand English very well.

OF COURSE they're going to create all the other languages.  Do you think that the first beta with other languages is going to have everything?? Duh!

I would just like to add that IE7 is really terrific, IMHO.  You can see nice progress with each release that comes out.  Kudos on the bug reporting system too.

MS is doing everything with class and openness, and I love it!  Keep up the great work MS.

# re: IE7 Beta 2 now available in multiple languages

Saturday, May 06, 2006 9:19 AM by Flying Dutchman
Where's the Dutch version?

# re: IE7 Beta 2 now available in multiple languages

Saturday, May 06, 2006 10:55 AM by O
...and what about Klingon?

# re: IE7 Beta 2 now available in multiple languages

Saturday, May 06, 2006 2:30 PM by somebody
What about a version of IE that would at least try to have a 1/100 of firefox features?

# re: IE7 Beta 2 now available in multiple languages

Saturday, May 06, 2006 2:47 PM by ToNi
Hi IE Team,
that's a great Job!

Thanks from Germany

# re: IE7 Beta 2 now available in multiple languages

Saturday, May 06, 2006 3:49 PM by Ismael
In Spanish, man, in Spanish!

# re: IE7 Beta 2 now available in multiple languages

Saturday, May 06, 2006 9:46 PM by Johan
Firefox market share is interestingly enough very high (30%) in both Germany and Finland.

Coincidence? I think not!

# re: IE7 Beta 2 now available in multiple languages

Saturday, May 06, 2006 11:36 PM by Kim
what about the Korean version of IE7??

# re: IE7 Beta 2 now available in multiple languages

Sunday, May 07, 2006 2:00 AM by xxx
IE Chinese?

# re: IE7 Beta 2 now available in multiple languages

Sunday, May 07, 2006 2:01 AM by xxx
what about the Chinese version of IE7??

# re: IE7 Beta 2 now available in multiple languages

Sunday, May 07, 2006 2:49 AM by Marvin
is it possible to associate back and forward in the page history with arrov keys? and how?

Thank you.

# re: IE7 Beta 2 now available in multiple languages

Sunday, May 07, 2006 4:16 AM by Julian "Link" Becker
Hi,

I am German so I tried installing the German version.. however it told me that my Windows XP Professional is an English version so I cannot use this beta. Okay, I changed the system language via registry temporarily, it installed but doesn't work correctly so I reinstalled the English beta.

Could I perhaps also expect a MUI pack for this Internet Explorer version (my Windows is MUI translated to German).

Thanks,

Link

# re: IE7 Beta 2 now available in multiple languages

Sunday, May 07, 2006 5:43 AM by EricLaw [MSFT]
@Marvin: Alt+LeftArrow and Alt+RightArrow go back and forward.

# re: IE7 Beta 2 now available in multiple languages

Sunday, May 07, 2006 5:44 AM by appbeta
And what about Chinese?

# re: IE7 Beta 2 now available in multiple languages

Sunday, May 07, 2006 5:52 AM by Xepol
Uh, why exactly do people who speak german get phone support?

# re: IE7 Beta 2 now available in multiple languages

Sunday, May 07, 2006 7:34 AM by lee,hwang
give me IE7 now in korean... :)

# re: IE7 Beta 2 now available in multiple languages

Sunday, May 07, 2006 8:27 AM by Norwegian
UÆÆ! You havent made IE 7.0 in Norwegian?? Me and my country are feeling so ignored.

# re: IE7 Beta 2 now available in multiple languages

Sunday, May 07, 2006 9:07 AM by Daljon
MS has done a great job so far on 7.0. I can't imagine MS releasing any version of a language to fit any EU country at all. Not with the current attacks the EU have made on MS. Keep you the good work Team MSIE 7.

# re: IE7 Beta 2 now available in multiple languages

Sunday, May 07, 2006 9:20 AM by Estrela
goatava que me dissesse como posso fazer o dawload em PortugUês

Obrigado
Estrela

# re: IE7 Beta 2 now available in multiple languages

Sunday, May 07, 2006 9:41 AM by kalphegor
and the Romanian version?

# re: IE7 Beta 2 now available in multiple languages

Sunday, May 07, 2006 10:31 AM by Raiker
and Russia?

# re: IE7 Beta 2 now available in multiple languages

Sunday, May 07, 2006 3:38 PM by Wraith Daquell
Elvish?

In time people... in time.

# re: IE7 Beta 2 now available in multiple languages

Sunday, May 07, 2006 4:42 PM by ieblog
We will release IE7 in all of our standard languages. This announcement is concerning the current Beta 2 of IE7.

Xepol,

People in German get phone support (just as we also offer in English) because the resources were lined up from our support group to do so. This takes time. I'm not personally involved in that work but I know it is something that we wanted to do.

Al Billings [MSFT]

# re: IE7 Beta 2 now available in multiple languages

Sunday, May 07, 2006 5:52 PM by Fduch
Can users of German version change input language from german to english?

# re: IE7 Beta 2 now available in multiple languages

Sunday, May 07, 2006 5:55 PM by Ian Davies
Is there going to be a UK English version of IE7? Is there going to be a UK English version of Windows Vista? I'd love to be able to have 'colours' and a 'favourites centre' - surely it wouldn't take very long to put together? We in the UK would be very grateful. Of course I appreciate that things like German and French and the rest have to come first, but given how similar US English is to UK English it would be great if you could make a version for us.

Thanks,
Ian

# re: IE7 Beta 2 now available in multiple languages

Sunday, May 07, 2006 7:06 PM by paulfp
... we did invent the language after all ;)

# re: IE7 Beta 2 now available in multiple languages

Sunday, May 07, 2006 7:43 PM by Alex
When should I DL it?

http://r2000.blogspot.com

# re: IE7 Beta 2 now available in multiple languages

Sunday, May 07, 2006 9:26 PM by Ron
Don't forget Australian! err...

# re: IE7 Beta 2 now available in multiple languages

Sunday, May 07, 2006 10:54 PM by Gary Gray
gadgetanda2@aanet.com.au
I installed Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2
and found that I could NOT copy files to Desktop via menu on left hand side of Desktop
most annoying....
(only if I dragged & dropped or copy & pasted could I get the files to Desktop)
Further........
I could NOT access any web pages that were attached to Emails
MOST annoying....
Either I am doing something wrong, failed to alter some setting to be able to do BOTH of above (being some what of a novice)
As such I was unimpressed with IE 7 & I simply reinstalled IE 6
Apart from that, the brief usage I had with IE 7 Beta 2, the features appeared fine.  This may seem minor to you but myself & OTHERS found both (ESPECIALLY Problem 2 - NOT being able to access Web Pages sent via Email) NOT worth the effort of having IE 7 installed.

Is this a New Feature / Fault yet to be fixed or what?
I would be interested in a REPLY to above email address (gadgetanda2@aanet.com.au)

# re: IE7 Beta 2 now available in multiple languages

Sunday, May 07, 2006 11:51 PM by PK
That's right RON! i was going to post that request here to. We want an Aussie language version for IE please.

it would go something like this.

"G'Day mate. Welcome to IE7 and it's bloody fantasic mate!"

the AussiePower tools XP add-on will include this update/change

"G'Day cobbers and welcome to this fair dinkum IE7 web browser, maaaate. We hope yoooose have a bloody good day, mate."

# re: IE7 Beta 2 now available in multiple languages

Monday, May 08, 2006 12:52 AM by Marvin
WE COME IN PEACE! Martian Version??

# IE7 Beta2 日本語版

Monday, May 08, 2006 2:01 AM by Akira's Blogs
ITmedia で報じられている通り、IE Blog （マイクロソフトのIE開発チームのブログ）で Monday, May 8th, at 9:00PM PST = 日本時間5月9日午前1時 に IE7 Beta2 日本語版がダウンロードできるようになる旨公開されている。
ブラウジングはPC利用の最も基本的な部分なので、なるたけ早く慣れておきたいもの。英語版UIが苦手な人もこれでOK。 ...

# re: IE7 Beta 2 now available in multiple languages

Monday, May 08, 2006 5:03 AM by kozakr
And what about a Czech version of IE7?

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# re: IE7 Beta 2 now available in multiple languages

Monday, May 08, 2006 6:49 AM by IE lover
Good job developers! Do you plan any other languages? Especially Czech :-)

# XML based interface

Monday, May 08, 2006 7:22 AM by boen_robot
I was wondering... instead of getting IE team(s), would it be possible to implement all interface data in XML files? That way a user could easily translate IE7 into his/her language and/or edit some part of the interface he/she finds unusual.

I'm asking for this, because otherwise, I wouldn't expect any Bulgarian version of IE7 and Bulgarian is my native language after all.

Besides, as far as I have read, MS Office 2007 is going to be using such kind of XML based interface. Wouldn't it be great if other MS applications do the same?

# re: IE7 Beta 2 now available in multiple languages

Monday, May 08, 2006 7:52 AM by Leonardo Fontoura
what about the Brazilian version of IE7??

# re: IE7 Beta 2 now available in multiple languages

Monday, May 08, 2006 10:22 AM by 翁超
什么时候能出现中文版本的啊!

# re: IE7 Beta 2 now available in multiple languages

Monday, May 08, 2006 10:23 AM by viconet
what about the china version of IE7??

# re: IE7 Beta 2 now available in multiple languages

Monday, May 08, 2006 12:41 PM by Bill
Hi, I downloaded IE7 couple of days ago. Now links in my e-mails no longer connect direct to the internet and I have to copy and paste rather than single click. Is there a solution and has this happened to others?

Thanks

# re: IE7 Beta 2 now available in multiple languages

Monday, May 08, 2006 1:01 PM by TK
what about CZECH?

# Multiple Languages

Monday, May 08, 2006 10:17 PM by Dan
Please make an effor to ship 1 version that has ALL the language included, saving people trouble from downloading different versions.

By releaseing only a few key languages you are annoying those who feel that their language our country was slighted.

Also, please provide simple XML tools, rare languages are not going to be made by Micosoft but often have enough support.


# re: IE7 Beta 2 now available in multiple languages

Monday, May 08, 2006 11:43 PM by PatriotB
XML language files... nice in theory but it wouldn't work to well in practice.

XML is not the most efficient storage medium, both in terms of size and speed.  The best you could do is, at runtime or language-install-time, compile the XML intermediate form that can be used efficiently.  But if you're going to do that, why not just go ahead and make standard Windows resource DLLs?

Also, XML may work well for strings, but other types of resources may need to be localized as well.  This includes resizing/positioning dialog boxes to account for different word sizes.  Also, images, sounds, or other resource data may need to be tweaked or replaced for cultural sensitivity or other reasons.

Also, localization isn't just showing appropriate strings in the UI.  It also includes things such as fonts, keyboard layouts, and sorting/collation methods.  These are things provided at the OS level and can't be provided through an XML file.

I doubt that Office would be using XML files for localization.  boen_robot, could you post a link to where you read this?

Lastly, I would guess that, when the final version is done, IE7 will be released in all languages that Windows supports.  There have been efforts in recent years to extend this coverage significantly, to "rare" languages, through the ELK and LIP programs.  (LIP covers Bulgarian.)  Michael Kaplan's blog has several postings about these programs:
http://blogs.msdn.com/michkap/archive/2005/01/26/360685.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/michkap/archive/2005/02/10/370460.aspx

# re: IE7 Beta 2 now available in multiple languages

Tuesday, May 09, 2006 3:17 AM by Jarka
and czech version???

# re: IE7 Beta 2 now available in multiple languages

Tuesday, May 09, 2006 9:59 AM by Júnior
When it will leave the version in Portuguese?

# re: IE7 Beta 2 now available in multiple languages

Tuesday, May 09, 2006 3:40 PM by r
what about the czech version?

# re: IE7 Beta 2 now available in multiple languages

Tuesday, May 09, 2006 3:41 PM by hgzuk
what about the czech version?

# re: IE7 Beta 2 now available in multiple languages

Tuesday, May 09, 2006 4:16 PM by mta
I'm wondering why the "Open in New Tab" option in the pop up menu disappears.

# re: IE7 Beta 2 now available in multiple languages

Tuesday, May 09, 2006 4:25 PM by ieblog
Are you running a third party toolbar like the Google Toolbar? Toolbars often take over the context menu and will change what you see there.

Al Billings [MSFT]

# re: IE7 Beta 2 now available in multiple languages

Tuesday, May 09, 2006 8:08 PM by gus
español!!!!

# re: IE7 Beta 2 now available in multiple languages

Tuesday, May 09, 2006 11:15 PM by Charlie Brown
I guess the IE7 team could learn a lesson from this post. DISABLE COMMENTS on some of these announcements!!

What about this, what about that...  God! What about a bit of intelligence, what about spending 2 minutes to read the WHOLE post and some of the comments?

HEY! HEY YOU! Yes, you there commenting right now! If you'll ask "what about a Esperanto version" or any other weird language, get a life! You'll burn in hell if you click "Submit"! >:-(

# re: IE7 Beta 2 now available in multiple languages

Wednesday, May 10, 2006 2:22 AM by mta
Yeeeessss, Google Toolbar (beta) is the problem that causes the disappearance of "Open in New Tab" menu item

# re: IE7 Beta 2 now available in multiple languages

Wednesday, May 10, 2006 8:25 AM by megile
yuo nice?

# re: IE7 Beta 2 now available in multiple languages

Wednesday, May 10, 2006 8:32 AM by Oleg maddox
firefox pwns j00 IE7

# re: IE7 Beta 2 now available in multiple languages

Wednesday, May 10, 2006 8:41 AM by John Cave
Superb layout and easy to navigate makes this the fastest and most reliable IE to date. The phising filter makes life on-line much more secure and pleasent. Well done to the whole development team at Microsoft.

# re:re: IE7 Beta 2 now available in multiple languages

Wednesday, May 10, 2006 9:56 AM by boen_robot
I looked into a bit more detail about what I read for MS Office 2007 and it turned out that what's happening would be some sort of Microsoft's XML based format to save MS Office documents in. I didn't saw the same for interface unfortunatly :(. Perhaps I got the prase "extensive UI" in the Office FAQ wrong...

Technically speaking, XML could carry all sorts of data, including box sizes, some predefined values for more specific tasks, etc. as long as they could be written in plain text, so it's not impossible to create such a thing.

In terms of speed however I should agree. An option to choose from XML files, which would then "recompile" the interface sounds acceptable though, both for MS Office and IE :)

# Multiple languages vs. functionality

Wednesday, May 10, 2006 12:20 PM by Ryan Homer
I am pleased that Microsoft has provided their software in multiple languages for quite some time now and that IE7 will be no exception.

However, I hope that this does not take away too much attention to other important developments in the final product. For example, opening IE is quite sluggish as well as opening new tabs.

I think it's also interfering with my Windows Explorer and causing periodic short lockups. Can someone comment on whether IE is still heavily tangled up in Windows Explorer and if so, how come IE still takes so long to open up?

Thanks.

# re: IE7 Beta 2 now available in multiple languages

Thursday, May 11, 2006 2:01 AM by EricLaw [MSFT]
@Ryan, if you're experiencing slowdowns, a likely culprit is third-party browser extensions.  If you start IE in no-addons mode, does it start more quickly.

# re: IE7 Beta 2 now available in multiple languages

Thursday, May 11, 2006 3:09 AM by 中国 China
Well Done! But why you don't have Chinese, though, because it's one  major language.

# re: IE7 Beta 2 now available in multiple languages

Saturday, May 13, 2006 4:46 AM by Dan
People have been complaining that the Japanese version of IE can not be installed on non-Japanese OS's. How silly is that?

# How do you unistall.

Monday, May 15, 2006 10:16 PM by SteveU
IE 7 beta 2 crashes every 2 minutes under Microsoft Media Center 2005.

it is not listed under add/remove programs and I was unable to find the uninstall program on my system after searching the whole system.

# re: IE7 Beta 2 now available in multiple languages

Tuesday, May 16, 2006 2:53 PM by Michael Stein
Well Done,
multiple tabs like mozilla or opera, but stop-button and refresh-button should be bigger or highlited

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