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Dean -

Let me be amongst the first to congratulate you and your team for their extremely hard work in this release. Something that often goes unmentioned, but is very important, is the release of JScript 5.7, which has seen some significant performance improvements.

Thanks to all of your team for all fixes and performance improvements. Looking forward to much more frequent releases!!

Cheers,

- Bill

Great to know! Finally. IDN Domains will rock now!

I have a test computer with english Windows XP Pro+MUI installed, and right after I've installed Internet Explorer 7, the MUI is always in english everywhere in Windows.

Will there be an MUI update for Corporation before this is widely distributed ? It's going to be a puzzle if it's not.

Now that you took that off your backs ( I can't imagine what a burden that was... ), you should take your time to carefully plan, develop and deliver the much needed - incremental, hopefully yearly - upgrades.

Now is the time to pay even more attention to web developers and to the needs of web users. You made a good start, but lots more need to be done. I can't wait to see what's coming next.

It seems like scrolling is still messed up.  Some samples:

http://video.aol.com/

http://www.pcworld.com/

http://www.microsoft.com (yes, really)

The scrolling is much less choppy in IE6.

Is this an IE7 issue, or an issue with the websites?

Thank you for your hard work!

IE7 really rocks - the speed of the RTM build is incredible!

As an IE add-on developer, IE is our platform that we rely on. We especially appreciate the backward-compatibility for add-ons you achieved in IE7 (toolbars should remain tab-compatible etc.).

Looking forward to an even better IE8...

Congratulations on getting this out the door - great work!

Congrats.

Good work on keeping it mostly backwards-compatible and fixing a number of old bugs, I still think it's only half way there though.

Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP Available Now IE 7 just released Microsoft's IE Team today released...

I'll update later tonight, but I want to get this out there now! Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP Available

Thank you and your team for all of your hard work.

The Web needs this.

At least, the Web needs anything that improves over IE6.

--oh, and finally, transparent PNGs on an IE.

Congrats team!  Software development is hard work.  Thanks for striving to make Internet Explorer a better browsing experience!

Congratulations on the IE7 release.

As IE makes up well more than the majority of the browser market, this is a great advancement for all. In particular it raises the minimum requirements for developers as well. I welcome IE7, and eagerly look forward to IE8.

Dean Hachamovitch has just announced - well, you know the rest.

On Windows XP at least. Read the announcement on the IE Team Blog. It doesn't seem to be on Microsoft

Thanks. Now we can throw out Dean Edwards ie7.js (at least in IE7) ;-)

Hi IE7 is great, i've been using it since beta1, just one thing with the final build install, it turned off my quick launch toolbar, when i turned it back on, the shortcuts were reordered, slightly annoying, but good work on the release.

Congratulations on finishing IE7! It's looking great.

As had been rumored, today's the day Microsoft is releasing Internet Explorer 7' finished version. You can get it at the IE home page. But it's not coming to you via Windows Update, as outlined in my column this...

Internet Explorer 7.0 will not work with Army Web sites with AKO enabled and SSL.  

 if i go to https://www.us.army.mil, i got error message below

There is a problem with this website's security certificate.

The security certificate presented by this website was not issued by a trusted certificate authority.

Security certificate problems may indicate an attempt to fool you or intercept any data you send to the server.  

 We recommend that you close this webpage and do not continue to this website.  

 Click here to close this webpage.  

 Continue to this website (not recommended).  

    More information

New version of JScript? When were you planning on telling us this?  We have been begging for new JavaScript and DOM support for ages!

Thanks for being so transparent. NOT.

Yes, now that it is out, you need to focus on one thing and one thing only.

Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!, Developers!

I hate to be so childish with this, but it is essential that you realize how important this is.  If you don't know, ask Balmer.

@Mikey: The USArmy site is using a self-signed digital certificate.  To prevent spoofing, self-signed certificates are not trusted.  This hasn't changed since IE6, though in IE6 we showed a popup warning instead of the full-page warning.  You can simply click through the warning page if you'd like, or you can choose to trust the self-signed certificate by clicking the View Certificates link in the "Certificate Error" button after you continue to the site.

@James: The changes to the JScript.dll are bugfixes and performance improvements only.  The language itself has not changed.

Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP Available Now

Today we released Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP. I encourage everyone to download the final version from http://www.microsoft.com/ie.

We listened carefully to feedback from many sources (including

Congratulations!  I look forward to a bright future for IE.

Remote Desktop On A Non-Standard Port [Via: Haacked ] Why Oh Why Couldn't WebPermission Be Part Of Medium...

I think the best thing about this post is "we have already started work on the next versions of Internet Explorer"....

Thanks and keep it up, all! :)

Tabs, a simpler UI, "security"... it makes you wonder who is following who here. Mozilla certainly isn't one known to follow, that's for sure.

Where can I get the adms for IE7? Will the gps for IE6 work on IE 7? I like the new version we really need it those tabs

I just wanted to let you all know, I downloaded it and am currently using it. What do I feel - its nothing short of AMAZING! Great stuff guys!

- Mayank

Tonight Microsoft has released the RTM version of IE7 for Windows XP. You can read about it here , and

David: You're saying Mozilla "isn't known to follow"?  What, are you kidding?  Read what the Firefox founders have to say about that.  (Hint: Everyone follows, everyone leads.  it's the nature of the game)

Stop complaining if you do not like the product do not get it. Firefox, Mozilla, Netscape, opera, maxthon can be set as your default browser. If you do not like Windows get an apple or Linux I myself use UBUNTU and XP Pro (and Win 2K3 R2 at work)I like both (Will prefer Vista when it's out) so STOP crying ghoshhh!!

Yay, IE is now almost capable of what other browsers have been doing for years! Go MS "developers!" You guys really hit those CSS bugs on the head! Plus that intuitive interface, wow!

Micrsoft: We do what others do, only five years later, with less quality, and claim that we innovated!

To: @Mickey (Did you read the FAQs in the AKO site? I guess not)

http://help.us.army.mil/cgi-bin/rightnow.cfg/php/enduser/faqs/new_std_adp.php?p_faqid=11042

Way to go Dean and team... nice work.  I am digging tabbed browsing and especially RSS integration.  Congrats!

Will: The proof is not in what the founders of Mozilla have said, but in the pudding, the final product.

Ask any web developer and most will tell you about their frustrations of IE's lack of compliance against W3C's web standards.  Firefox among with many other browsers have had these standards well before todays release of IE7.

Just one more example of who is following who here.

IEBlog : Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP Available Now Windows XP SP2 와 Windows 2003 Server SP1용 Internet

Congratulations from the InfoPath team! IE7 is awesome - thanks for a great release!

-alexwein

@James,

JScript != Javascript

After upgrading to IE7 Windows update stopped working on Server 2003 (error 0x8DDD0001). Uninstalling Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration seems to help.

Thanks for the update. We all look forward to a safer browsing experience for our users. Hopefully IE 7.0 delivers. The price is right.

Evolutionary rate: Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 was released today. It's, uh, for Windows. Mozilla Firefox is due for a major rev soon now too. The last major rev of IE was in August 2001, about the time that Mozilla was taking over from Netscape Navigator,

IEBlog : Internet Explorer 7 for Windows...

I installed the new version and now Links won't open from emails using Outlook Express...just gives me a new balnk tab without even an error message.

I figured out how to get the OE email links to open.  Go to Start, Set Program Access and Defaults, Custom, then choose IE as your browser and OE as email and click OK at bottom.  Apparently this resets the default programs and it works fine now.

@Tony "Wolfman",

Your solution ("if you don't like it, use something else") works only if you are a user.  Developers are usually forced to cater to the least common denominator when building web apps.  Any web application that will be released to the general public has to work properly in the least sophisticated browser in general use.  

Before today, the bottom of the browser barrel was IE6.  Now it's IE7*.  This is a HUGE improvement for web devs, but it is certainly worth noting that IE7 is still significantly behind its major competitors with regard to the latest and greatest web standards and features.

Allow me to join the chorus of others on congratulating the IE team on a great job, while politely reminding them that we anxiously await any further improvements that they might be able to provide.  

*Well, IE7 would be the bottom of the barrel if IE6 wasn't still around.  There's no IE7 for Win2K, and Win2K is still in pretty wide circulation.  For me personally, this means that my apps will still have to work in IE6.

I am disappointed that even the released IE7 still crashes Money 2007 when it tries to upload. Don't the IE people talk to Microsoft Money people at Microsoft? I can't understand why teh LATEST versions of each product fails to work with each other...

Installation was smooth. I can see some improvement in performance too. Thanks for the efforts.

Thank you! I was waiting for this a long time.

Installation went quickly and easy.. Thnx for this release..

Regards

Congratulations team!

Congratulations on getting Internet Explorer 7 released.  I don't love it (e.g., its interface still feels clunky to me, its CSS support is still disappointingly short of what other browsers offer, it still has nearly useless warning messages about supposed page errors, its installer seems to have reverted the Flash Player plug-in from version 9.0.16.0 to version 6.0.84.0 [only in IE; Firefox and Opera still report 9.0.16.0], it does not seem capable of installing Flash Player 9 via the page to which your own IE add-ons site links [from http://www.ieaddons.com/addon.aspx?cid=3&scid=73&aid=38fa1bf5-9122-44f5-bb50-a578a81a1ad5] and it froze up [complete with the "Not Responding" message in the title bar] once already within the first few pages I tried on a page ), but it is good to see progress.  I hope to see more soon.

Oops . . . that "on a page " above was supposed to be something like "on a page that other browsers, including IE 6, render without difficulty, error, or even warning or any kind".

While taking a few years off of new development, the IE team suddenly realized that Browser Wars II was

I've already posted my congratulations and overall thoughts in regards to this release, so with that, the official release announcement from Dean Hachamovitch, IEBlog : Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP Available Now Today we released Internet Explorer

@Brian Sexton: Please provide URLs for places where you're seeing errors only in IE7?

You can save the Flash Player installer and run it locally to enable IE 7 to run Flash content properly (aside from the extra-click step, obviously).  I just did so by using Firefox, but here is the current URL (subject to change, obviously) for users who are unable to install Flash Player 9 via Adobe's download page at http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash&P2_Platform=Win32&P3_Browser_Version=MSIE:

http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player.exe

Regarding the crash I mentioned in my first post about this announcement, it was on a page with Flash 7 content (when Internet Explorer 7 had only Flash 6.0.84.0 installed, which I did not then yet realize) and it happened after I clicked on the Flash content to activate it.  (Before that, the content area was visible, but it appeared to be corrupt, although I suppose that was the fault of the ancient version of Flash Player).  So . . . update Flash after you update Internet Explorer and hopefully, that sort of crash will not happen to you.

Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP Available Now For those of you who haven’t heard yet, we’re going

Windows 2000 Pro SP4 is not going to supported? Any technical reasons why not, besides EOL for Windows 2000?

Thanks in advance.

First Post ! Well, not quite. From the IE Blog : Today we released Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP.

Wow, lots of stuff going on. It's 12:20am, and I need some sleep here soon, but I'm back from the IE

Stan, they announced Win2k wasn't getting IE7 well over a year ago.  IE7 uses new APIs only available on later OSes.  Also, as you say, Win2k is out of mainstream support.

Is it somehow possible to run IE6 stand alone and have IE7 installed, so you can test in both environments (because of the css changes)??

Microsoft released the final version of their Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP. Visit the IE website:

Congratulations, have downloaded & installed at home, I think it's looking great.

Personally I prefer IE UI over Firefox, but I too would like to be able to customise the toolbar. Oh well, maybe in IE7.5 in 6 months time? :)

Keep up the good work.

Installed IE7 and it does not work, I simply have a blank page with http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=74005 in the address bar. Tried changing this url and no other sites will load. I thought it could be that I had the IE developer toolbar installed so I uninstalled the toolbar and IE7 and did the installation again. It still does not work! I had previously installed a beta version a while back, maybe that is part of the problem?

I experienced the same problem as Mike (post: Thursday, October 19, 2006 5:15 AM by Mike)... did NOT have the IE developer toolbar open; did not have any of the beta versions open either.  No way to get help, it just hangs.

Can I assume that the download servers are just REAL busy or have been taken down?  Because I just get 404 errors when I follow the download link.

I need an easy way to test the web sites I develop with IE7, however as most of our customers will be on IE6 for a long time, I can’t install IE7 on my main PC.

Can you please provide a package the makes use of Microsoft SoftGrid or otherwise that lets me quickly run IE7 on my PC without having to loose the ability to run IE6.  

(Virtual PC is a bit of a pain to set up, by the time I have install a copy of XP in it, and got XP activated etc.)

Ian Ringrose

(email address on website)

www.ringrose.name

Any chance of a list of changes since the last RC?

Great work to the team - I helped a bit with one single RSS problem, but they were quick to track it down and fix it.

Now, when are you going to fully fix the CSS engine?

A site that looks fine on a PC using Firefox, Opera, Netscape and on a Mac in Safari, will NOT render correctly using IE7.

If you are going to pick your first update to release, then may it please be to fix CSS?

Michael Bailey

@Ian Ringrose

Utilise the "multiple versions of IE on one machine" trick detailed at: http://tredosoft.com/Multiple_IE (or go to http://browsers.evolt.org/?ie/32bit/standalone and download the zips you want, unpack them in their own directories and make shortcuts)

And here comes the nightmare :(

In the latest epic landmark in the browser wars -- the shift from everyone in the world using Internet Explorer to some other browser -- Internet Explorer 7 has gone from beta to final way ahead of Mozilla Firefox 2.0's...

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!

IE7, I have been dreaming about it! I know we have the BEST possible browser available backed by a company that is the ONLY company that really cares about our security and GOOD online experience!!!

I am in awe at the IE team of GENIUSES programming into the late (early?) hours under the guidance of the most excellent Super Geniuses of our time.

They say good things take time and THIS PROVES IT!!!!!! IE7; I will install it everywhere!~

INSTANTLY I will be safe from all the badware on the net!!!

Thank YOU!!!! I am throwing away all my other browsers and browsing with IE only! In honour of the supergeniuses that made this possible! Microsoft makes the standards, so move over everyone else!!!!!!

Glassy tabs and antiphish for one and all!!!!!

If you go to the MS UK site then only RC1 is available.

Congratulations!

As an add-on developer I especially appreciate that you have done so much to ensure backwards compatibility with existing add-ons. I look forward to updates and additions to the IE platform and improved extensibility in the future.

Greetings from Austria, Vienna.

Após cinco versões Beta e um Release Candidate, o IE 7 para Windows XP foi oficialmente

You blink and about a gazillion people blog about it first - damn me for spending the morning learning

More screen real estate? Can't say that I agree. In IE6 I could push the address bar, Google toolbar and IE buttons all onto the one line of my 1920px wide monitor.

In IE7 I have to have the address bar above, the Google toolbar in the middle and the tab / button bar below.

You could say that the file menu has gone, but if you press alt it briefly reappears.

The new layout is okay, but it's certainly not an improvement on the screen real estate from IE6, just as Office 2007's Ribbon takes up three lines again in what I could put on one in 2003.

Where can I find a good comparison of the new IE and Firefox 2.0?

Congratulations on this major update.

Dean Hachamovitch, General Manager for Microsoft's Iternet Explorer uses his blog to talk about the firm's first major browser update since 2001. Today we released Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP. I encourage everyone to download the final version

IE7 roxors! Great work, IE team. There's definitely room for improvement in future releases, but this is a fantastic start.

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INSTANTLY I will be safe from all the badware on the net!!

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Oooookay! And how are things on your planet?

Well good on ya for getting around to this! A bit late to the party but hey... MSoft can afford it :) My vote was lost to Firefox years ago however!

And I think we all need to remember that developing for PC with all the varied hardware is very hard. It's all but impossible to develop a binary that will work for ALL the different combinations of hardware out there. I think this is why theres all these predictions of consoles, with thier standardised hardware, taking over during the next decade. I mean I plugged a USB keyboard into my XBOX 360 the other day, it worked no problem...

Congratulations on the release! As a web developer who has been frustrated by IE6's rendering/css bugs for a long time, I can't say this strongly enough: Please, PLEASE don't make us wait another five years for the next one.

I'm more scared than excited. If supporting IE7 means we have to break support for IE6, or introduce another handful of awful hacks -- uptake on this is going to be pretty slow.

Hello,

IE7, both the beta and final version cause my version of Dreamweaver (8) to forget FTP connection information. That means that every time I switch "sites" or open the program fresh I have to re-enter FTP Username and Passwords before I can upload.  This is becoming a real neiussance.  Any ideas on how to correct it?

Terrill

Has the date been set when IE 7 is to be pushed out via Automatic Updates?

OH, you're killing me, Smalls!  That whole first paragraph is basically the guy saying "We spent lots and lots of time trying to catch up to Firefox (and other, "good" browsers)."

Funny how they've still failed miserably.

And to those of you that think IE6's rendering problems are gone, just wait until you look at your work in IE7.  I think you'll be...less than overwhelmed with joy.

upgrading from ie6 to ie7 made my text extremely blurry and fuzzy.  what can i do to get my text visibility back?

Has the date been set when IE 7 is to be pushed out via Automatic Updates?

I've been using IE7 RC1 for quite some time now and have been very impressed with the way it handles IDN, especially with respect to the mixed-script detection stuff.

To see some real-world example IDNs in action go to http://IDNSearch.Net/

Go to Tools, Options, Advanced, Multimedia and untick "Always use ClearType for HTML".

Congrats on shipping and thanks to you and your team for the hard work. I look forward to the large steps forward in both security and standards compliance (though there is still much work to be done) as well as the new rss support. I still think the UI looks like complete crap though.

Christmas comes early for evariste.

What a pleasant surprise. Longer I work in IT, the more I come to appreciate everything that Microsoft has done for the world.

Why, o why is it so difficult to make a browser that is compliant with standards? IE7 still doesn't have the full CSS specification, still doesn't render the Acid2 test as it should.... I went to Firefox back in the day's when it was still called Firebird, and I am not intending to switch back to IE. Sorry guy's, you've missed the train. And if I look at the improvements you've made in all those years of IE6, I am wondering if you will ever catch up again. And get me right, I think IE is the worst piece of junk that has even been programmed (correct that, we still have Frontpage too :) ), but my customers use it, so I have to make my webapps complient with it. So a better IE makes my day a bit sunnier.

I've been using IE7 RC1 for quite some time now and have been very impressed with the way it handles IDN, especially with respect to the mixed-script detection stuff.

To see some real-world example IDNs in action go to http://IDNSearch.Net/

Regarding my earlier post about slow scrolling, it only happens on pages with a search box and button.  If I uncheck 'Enable visual styles on buttons and controls in web pages', everything is fine.  Once that option is checked, pages with a search box and button are very choppy when you scroll.  And ideas why this happens?

To all those who wish to complain about IE7's standards support, or anything else that 'other browsers handle fine'.

Save it for your own blog. You're never going to be happy. Comparing FireFox to IE7 is comparing apples and oranges. FireFox isn't used by hundreds of applications, or by an OS. The complexity and development needed by FireFox is a lot less than IE. IE has its own rendering engine while FireFox borrows an existing one.

Please, just stop comparing them. You're just making yourself look like a fool by doing it.

According to IEBlog, we got the Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP. And by "we," I mean "ya'll," as I don't use Windows XP, but have fun with that. I'll be over here on my Mac, trying desperately how to...

Copy paste of quite some features of the current Firefox... Probably IE will be behind quite fast again... Firefox improves its functionality by the day. MS IE only by the several years...

One of the most interesting aspects of the IE vs. Firefox battle is the development of the ecosystem of extensions or add-ons. Right now firefox had a great advantage in this space but you can see microsoft trying to catch up.

Microsoft has a interesting partner in Trailfire, a recommended download for IE7. See link:

http://www.ieaddons.com/SearchResults.aspx?keywords=trailfire

But this extension is also available for firefox. See link:

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3524/

I think the ecosystem for firefox and IE will decide who wins this battle. What do you think?

I've been using the following to test my client sites in IE7:  http://browsercam.com

I've been able to remotely test my sites and my client sites in IE7 while keeping my own machine on IE6 until I feel confident enough to upgrade.  

Congrats to IE on the release - looking forward to future developement.

Cheers!

Good job, guys!

IE7 Run Once locked up the system, now whenever I open a new session I am directed to:

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=74005

Which does nothing.  Any work around.  Since the run once froze it did not allow me to choose my search engine or perform any of the requested functions.

As reported on TechWeb and other places on May 3rd after install of IE 7 links in Outlook 2003 messages are dead with default browser other than IE 7.  Is there any fix to this yet?

http://www.techweb.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=187200001

Late yesterday afternoon, Microsoft released the final version of Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP....

Guys, IE 7 restarted my machine TWO times during the installation and overall it took about 10 minutes. Firefox requires no restarts and only takes couple minutes to install.

You can say you only do it once when you install it. True. But even more true is that installation creates the first impression of a product and if installation is slow and needs two restarts, the product itself is probably crap if you look just beneath the skin. No?

If you're running Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 you can now download the release version of Internet

I have admin rights on my windows xp system,but iam not able to reset the security zones.Its disabled for me.

Any solution for this?..

Right after installed IE7 (from RC) and rebooted, the system got messed up. The first thing I noticed is that there're 4 updates available via AU. When I update them, I got svchost.exe crash (tried twice).

Now trying to use system restore to get back to IE 7 RC.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

I'd like to install IE7 for testing purposes

If IE7 appears to hang, it's because it's trying to open the "first-run/run-once" page.

I guess that webserver is sort of overloaded right now ;-)

Jim Liu, I would have advised you not to install beta software on a production machine.

I suggest uninstalling IE7 RC, back to IE6, and then installing IE7 RTM.

If that doesn't work, reinstall Windows.

i found the Yahoo! IE 7 version this blog was referring to.

http://downloads.yahoo.com/internetexplorer/index.php

I have installed IE7. in internet options on the advanced tab I can see a black exclamation mark with a yellow background beside "phishing filter," with turned on automatic website checking. does anyone know anything about this, please?

Congratulations on the release. I'm surprised and impressed at the same time that it's come out so soon after the last expert zone chat.

I hope that the new IE7 does make good on its promises of enhanced security. Windows XP SP2 offered improvements, but it wasn't the whole answer all by itself. In my line of work I still see XPSP2 PCs that have been run over by garbageware of many types.

The only thing that is really bad news about this is that users of previous Windows versions won't have any of the benefits. I can see the reasons behind not supporting Windows 98, NT and 95...but why was Windows 2000 left out in the cold here? It's still quite a viable operating system and widely used. IE7 is a critical security update as much as it is an improved browser.

I bring this up because you mention "listening to you" in your posting...and the request for a backport was made by many and yet it never came to be.

But...overall, congratulations on the release!

I tried installing IE7 on other PC (also upgrading from RC). It went flawlessly this time. I think it's because I got Symantec Antivirus and Windows Defender running on the previous PC and I disabled them on the latter PC.