from http://tinyurl.com/5gwjj Microsoft has shared publicly that IE 7.0 will be focused primarily on improving security. Company officials said recently that Microsoft plans to make IE 7.0 available to Windows XP Service Pack 2, Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 and Windows XP Professional x64 users. A first beta of IE 7.0 is due out this summer.
Sources say that IE 7.0 â which is code-named "Rincon," they hear â will be a tabbed browser. IE 7.0 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 7.0, partner sources said. 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 security enhancements Microsoft is expecting to include in IE 7.0, 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, which currently is in beta. ---------------------------------------------------------- To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe: http://www.dfwcfug.org/form_MemberUnsubscribe.cfm To subscribe: http://www.dfwcfug.org/form_MemberRegistration.cfm
