100 Million IE7 Installations!
I’m pleased to report that on January 8th, we had the 100 millionth IE7 installation. However, even more important than installations is usage. According to WebSideStory (the company we use to measure browser usage), as of this week, over 25% of all visitors to websites in the US were using IE7, making IE7 the second most used browser after IE6. We expect these numbers to continue to rise as we complete our final localized versions, scale up AU distribution, and with the consumer availability of Windows Vista on January 30, 2007.
If you haven’t installed IE7 for Windows XP yet, you can download it here. You won’t need to download it for Windows Vista as it has IE7 built in with all the same features as the XP version, plus Protected Mode.
Tony Chor
Group Program Manager
Comments
Anonymous
January 12, 2007
PingBack from http://www.pcdoctor-guide.com/wordpress/?p=3876Anonymous
January 12, 2007
How many were people installing for the third time in an attempt to get it working ;-) Just kidding. Congratulations to the team; here's hoping web developers can start to reduce support for IE 6 sooner then the 2010 date that some people have bandied about.Anonymous
January 12, 2007
12/01/2007 100 Millions faut l`faire franchement félicitation je le veut sur mon pc. Alain Beaulieu alian7msn.comAnonymous
January 12, 2007
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January 12, 2007
How many of the Microsoft websites don't yet support IE7? Still, all-in-all, many fewer complaints than the transition to XP SP1 brought. Great work.Anonymous
January 12, 2007
Yahoo! I love IE7 - congratulations guys for the best browser ever!Anonymous
January 12, 2007
Although it's great to see the IE6 numbers falling, I would still love to hear something about what is planned for IE8 and when is it coming out. While IE7 is a real improvement in comparison to IE6, it's still not good enough. Developing CSS and JavaScript for Firefox and Opera is still so much easier... Let's hope that IE6 will disappear as soon as possible...Anonymous
January 12, 2007
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January 12, 2007
I'll be cheering when IE6 is non-existent.Anonymous
January 12, 2007
Take that Firefox http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2007/01/12/100-million-ie7-installations.aspxAnonymous
January 12, 2007
This information can be inaccurate. They don't know if my Konqueror browser is identifying itself as IE7.Anonymous
January 12, 2007
@ Michal Speculation I desperately wish to believe is untrue: http://www.activewin.com/awin/comments.asp?HeadlineIndex=37964&Group=1 I seriously hope to hear something from MSFT on the subject because I cannot stomach being forced to use GIFs over PNGs with any kind of transparency (as they print as 2 bit images) for another year at minimum.Anonymous
January 12, 2007
So, how's IE8 coming? Not to knock the steps that IE7 has taken, but there's still some work to do. At least I might be able to use PNGs sometime...Anonymous
January 12, 2007
my webstats for my website shows firefox as the #1 browser, and ie 6 as the second... here are my past 24hr hits..... Firefox 1.5.0 106 35% Internet Explorer 6.0 103 34% Internet Explorer 7.0 44 15%Anonymous
January 13, 2007
Good work, where is the IE8 preview??? :)Anonymous
January 13, 2007
Man. What can you expect else then Microsoft push IE 7.0 to all users using Automatic Update and Windows/Microsoft Update as CRITICAL update ? Something I don't get - is this critical for me to install it or it's critical for Microsoft Corporation to force me install it ? I've to deny automatic updates several times - as I'm using Firefox for Internet and would like to not upgrade IE - as there is no reasons to fix something that not broken (local application like MS Help and others are working fine). But a lot of users have automatic update "automatically download and install" options and they have no choice. I've not seen much users voluntary installing IE 7. In contrast - users do install Opera and Firefox on their own will.Anonymous
January 13, 2007
@TAG: IE 7 installation is voluntary, when IE 7 is downloaded the user is presented with the screen 'An update to Internet Explorer is available. Would you like to install it now?' The user is offered 3 choices: Yes, No, Remind me later. Throughout the entire installation process the user can change his mind. So, IE 7 installation is entirely voluntary.Anonymous
January 13, 2007
@TAG: Besides, only an inept computer-neophyte would argue with a company (who has heavy investments in trying to secure their previously-insecure software) that says "previous versions are insecure... this version is more secure." Do you think Microsoft would lie about IE6's insecurity? Of course it's insecure. Have you forgotten all the previous security bulletins on this blog? Now, do you remember that most of those bulletins also said "but IE7 is NOT impacted by this exploit"?Anonymous
January 13, 2007
web stats are notoriously inaccurate. browser spoofing is common place (e.g. Opera reports as IE6 most of the time) Developers hit sites, testing in all browsers, even the ones they hate. And any web stats tracked by adware/spyware, like... hmmmm HITBOX?!?! which WebSideStory uses, are also skewed, because so many users block that kind of garbage, via Spybot, or Adblock, Adblock Plus, etc. Also, most non-Outhouse users block email images and cookies in HTML email, so spam that ends up there isn't being tracked as the true client either.Anonymous
January 13, 2007
I am seeing many naive users keeping their runonce screen without knowing how to change it...As i said before reset it back to the old homepage if the user dont confirm settings in the runonce screen after a certain timeframe (say 6 days)Anonymous
January 13, 2007
Just upgraded to IE7 from IE6, but lost access to all e-mail messages stored in IE6. Can anyone tell how to access them? Would be very grateful for response. WaltAnonymous
January 13, 2007
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January 13, 2007
@Microsoft: Please remember that the small minority is often the whiniest. I for one applaud you for IE7 and look forward to news on IE8 hint hint.Anonymous
January 13, 2007
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January 13, 2007
Is it true that Outlook 2007 will use the Microsoft Word HTML "engine" that only supports tables and inline CSS and not the recently updated trident rendering engine of IE7? I'm hoping this was a decision by another department in Microsoft that you yourselves felt slapped in the face after all your hard work. If the news is true it will motivate huge portions of people to not give a squat about supporting Outlook 2007 HTML email and corporate dominance or not see that product's shares erode away.Anonymous
January 13, 2007
Wraith Daquell: Reread my message. I trust Microsoft then they say that IE6 is insecure - so I use Firefox for internet pages. There is no reasons to upgrade something I'm not using actively.Anonymous
January 13, 2007
I installed IE7 and after a day uninstalled it. IE7 does not work with my touch pad 'back page' function. Like always why upgrade if with upgrade you lose exsisting functions.Anonymous
January 13, 2007
Can anyone, I mean anyone, tell me how to fix that maddening feature of IE7 where all the Favorites folders expand automatically when adding favorites? PleaseAnonymous
January 13, 2007
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January 14, 2007
@TAG "I've to deny automatic updates several times - as I'm using Firefox for Internet and would like to not upgrade IE - as there is no reasons to fix something that not broken" I was only commenting that IE6 is broken - and all the apps that relied on it were thus.Anonymous
January 14, 2007
Congrats! I have a question about IE7 on Vista. What actually is happening when I press F11 to go into the full screen view? Why does everything flicker? I see that just before it switches to full screen view, the skin changes to Vista Basic. Why is that?Anonymous
January 14, 2007
It only looks more advanced but I assure you that it does the same things as IE6.Anonymous
January 14, 2007
i am waiting 4 the mui pack to install it again...-.-|||Anonymous
January 14, 2007
I have downloaded the update and have had nothing with problems. My mail won't work and desktop shortcuts won't launch.Anonymous
January 14, 2007
So you push an application out as a critical update and then pat yourself on the back that people are using it? You can pretty much ignore WebSideStory stats. They're very inaccurate. Congratulations on finally making a lot of fixes to your browser. It's about time. As a web developer on Linux I've had to deal with IE6's horrible CSS support for years.Anonymous
January 14, 2007
Much bitterness from Firefox fanboys--to be expected since IE7 pushes their volunteer effort into third place. Tsk tsk, fellows!Anonymous
January 14, 2007
Web stats are very skewed, in favour of IE. Most 'other' browsers report as being IE to avoid various problems. You don't hear of Opera impersonating Firefox, or Netscape impersonating Opera... So whatever the IE stats, I would take at least 10-25% offAnonymous
January 14, 2007
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January 14, 2007
Some good news :) Now the bad, why did the Office 2007 team decide to go back to the dark ages of web browsing by making Outlook 2007 use MS Word for HTML email rendering? Is there a blog for Office, all the ones I've found haven't been posted too for ages.Anonymous
January 14, 2007
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January 14, 2007
Web stat may well be skewed in favor of IE, but are they skewed in favor of IE 7? I would guess that user agent spoofing would rather favor IE 6 (since this is the version that has the most chances to bypass misguided browser checks) and that IE 7 stats are rather accurate.Anonymous
January 15, 2007
@DaveM "You don't hear of Opera impersonating Firefox, or Netscape impersonating Opera..." These isolated instances don't constitute any noticeable number in comparsion with main browsers' statistics.Anonymous
January 15, 2007
According to Bill Pytlovany/WinPatrol, the statistics he is seeing are even higher for IE7. Pingback: http://securitygarden.blogspot.com/2007/01/microsoft-ie-vista-teams-need-winpatrol.htmlAnonymous
January 15, 2007
You did intentionally forget to mention one important fact: Most installations are "forced" updates because of Windows Update telling the users to update as a security bugfix. Keep it real!Anonymous
January 15, 2007
my recommendation for those 100 Millions: http://www.mozilla.com/Anonymous
January 15, 2007
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January 15, 2007
I can't find the download link for IE7 SP1. Can you post the uri on this blog, as there's no obvious link on the Internet Explorer section.Anonymous
January 15, 2007
The statistics on my website http://www.cablemodem.ch only showes 7,9% of InternetExplorer 7 visitors. At the lead there is still Firefox with 48,2% followed by InternetExplorer 6 with 19,1%.Anonymous
January 15, 2007
Via the Microsoft IEBlog, Internet Explorer 7 has its 100 millionth download. According to WebSideStory...Anonymous
January 15, 2007
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January 15, 2007
Cheers!! I found myself IE7 is useful. ThanksAnonymous
January 15, 2007
How many of them installed IE7 manually. I think most of the 100 Million got forced to by automatic windows-updates.Anonymous
January 15, 2007
"I think most of the 100 Million got forced to by automatic windows-updates." As was pointed out before, it was not forced. It was optional.Anonymous
January 15, 2007
From the IEBlog 100 Million downloads of IE7 Over 25% of all visitors to websites in the US were usingAnonymous
January 15, 2007
Congratulations guys! May everyone using IE6 be upgrading soon!Anonymous
January 15, 2007
Good news. Now if only a lot more IE6 users would upgrade (a lot of people I know ahven't even heard of IE7), though there are reasons why some stick with IE. IE7's a great browser, for me it's fast and uses little RAM (Though IE6 probably did the same). I love clicking on the browser icon and have it appear there instantaneously. True, I'm more of an Opera user myself, but only because it has more features that I make frequent use of. Without Opera, IE7 would be my first choice. Now the only thing that needs doing for IE7 is to fix all the security vunlerabilities, not just the critical ones. IE is losing market to Firefox, you'd win back a lot of users if it turned out IE was much more secure than Firefox.Anonymous
January 15, 2007
"IE is losing market to Firefox, you'd win back a lot of users if it turned out IE was much more secure than Firefox." Losing at a very slow rate. Unless something drastic happened, by the time the next version of IE comes out, FireFox will still only have a small slice of marketshare. While it does have some good features. It not being able to run for more than half a day without requiring a restart is not something to be proud of.Anonymous
January 15, 2007
As a web developer, this can only be a good thing. Even I, as a Mozilla & Firefox fanatic since about 2000, can see that. The sooner we can forget about IE6 the better. Its just a shame that this isn't reducing the IE5 population at all, since they are already approaching a level that can be ignored, or at least relegated to "so long as you can read the text" status. Out of interest, does anyone have any figures they can use to compare the growth of IE6 SP2 against IE7?Anonymous
January 15, 2007
Do you really think there would be an IE 7 if Firefox, Opera, and all those alternate browsers had not come along? I think not! Add to that, IE 7 upgrade is an update. Remember figures can lie and liars can figure!Anonymous
January 15, 2007
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January 15, 2007
I had been using IE7 as soon as it was available in its final download. However, when I tried to re-install MS Premium over the Internet, it required me to uninstall IE7 so I could continue with the re-installation using IE6. I then ran into an internal problem which my tech support did not recognize. Quaere: why did not microsoft make IE7 compatible with MS Premium since both programs are theirs?Anonymous
January 15, 2007
On January 8th Microsoft surpassed the 100 Million user mark with Internet Explorer 7 . I think thisAnonymous
January 15, 2007
The only reason IE7 has 100mil installations is because of MS pushing it as a critical update through WindowsUpdate and the Autoupdate mechanism in XP SP2. I challenge MS not to use the critical update to push IE7 out and you'll see the adoption rate is much lower than what they claim. While better than IE6, IE7 is still garbage when it comes to standards compliance and CSS support.Anonymous
January 15, 2007
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January 15, 2007
Sorry, I meant school software. It is pathetic that I have to run to different web browswers, Mozilla/Firefox for school and any web streaming and IE7 for the other little things. Rhettman A. Mullis, Jr. President SAFEHouseAnonymous
January 15, 2007
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January 15, 2007
PLEASE FIX ! Each time IE7 is opened, the value of the "Width" entry in registry key HKUuserSoftwareMicrosoftInternet ExplorerLinksExplorer automatically increments by 1 !! Stop this crazyness. Also, please make IE7 remember the previous PIN STATUS after the FAVORITE CENTER is closed. Each time favorite center is closed then reopen, it will be back to non-pined state regardless if it was pinned before or not. IMO it should be remembered! It's annoying when you want to use PINNED all the time to have to set it manually.Anonymous
January 15, 2007
Wow - that's a great milestone. From the IE Blog : http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2007/01/12/100-million-ie7-installations.aspxAnonymous
January 16, 2007
IE7 without Maxthon 2 cannot be called even Release Candidate.Anonymous
January 16, 2007
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January 16, 2007
BetaNews got word from IE group program manager Tony Chor via the official IEBlog that Microsoft's latestAnonymous
January 16, 2007
I was tested IE7. It's slower and not valid. I don't recommend install it.Anonymous
January 16, 2007
IE7, descargas ie7, firefox, estadisticas navegadoresAnonymous
January 16, 2007
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January 16, 2007
"The only reason IE7 has 100mil installations is because of MS pushing it as a critical update through WindowsUpdate and the Autoupdate mechanism in XP SP2." Do people who keep saying this simply not read other peoples' comments or something? It has been said MANY TIMES (even in this entry's comments), that this was not the case. The installation was OPTIONAL... op·tion·al –adjective
- left to one's choice; not required or mandatory: Formal dress is optional.
- leaving something to choice. To quote a blog post on the matter: "AU will notify users when IE7 is ready to install and show a welcome screen that presents key features and choices to “Install”, “Don’t Install”, or “Ask Me Later”" (http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/07/26/678149.aspx) People had a choice.... what part of that do you people not understand?
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January 16, 2007
Do the IETeam have any statistics for [Automatic Update/Forced/Prompt non-savvy users with 'security' recommendations so they panic and just click OK] (select your preferred response here) downloads versus 'voluntary' downloads? It would be interesting to see the proportions.Anonymous
January 16, 2007
This is an interesting one - I have IE 7 installed on all my machines except my SBS 2003 server and theAnonymous
January 16, 2007
Internet Explorer 8.0 Alpha edition already available? http://news.softpedia.com/news/Internet-Explorer-8-0-44304.shtmlAnonymous
January 16, 2007
Adoption rates: The Microsoft Internet Explorer team reports one hundred million completed installations of IE7 as of Jan 8 this year. The browser was released on Oct 18, and went into Microsoft's auto-update mechanism in November. That's 82 days forAnonymous
January 16, 2007
Congratulations MS Developers on a job well-done. I love IE7. I'm getting really sick of the sour grapes comments by the users of other browsers. I downloaded IE7 and installed it on purpose and have not regretted it. All it rquires is to use some common sense and follow the simple installation instructions. Updates are not pushed on the dumb users. There are choices with any of the updates. If you don't want them pushed, turn off auto update and install what you want manually. Duh!Anonymous
January 16, 2007
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January 16, 2007
- IE7 đạt con số 100 triệu lượt cài đặt Trong công bố hôm thứ 6 vừa qua, Microsoft cho biết...
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January 16, 2007
Looks like IE8 is on the way. other people are watching for it. It will probably be bundled with Longhorn server (Windows Server 2007). http://ie7update.com/.Anonymous
January 16, 2007
Thanks MS! After having installed IE7 I couldn´t access my router settings anymore even using firefox. So I dumped it and did a roll back to IE6, because I need my router for some reason I can´t remember.Anonymous
January 17, 2007
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January 17, 2007
Gregg Keizer at InformationWeek observes that Despite 100 Million IE 7 Installs, Microsoft’s Browser Still Loses Ground: “[As of] January 8th, we had the 100 millionth IE7 installation,” said Tony Chor, an IE group program manager, ..Anonymous
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January 17, 2007
Will IE7 have a localization pack for ukrainian-speaking users? I mean, that OSS has a lot better localization support than anything that comes from microsoft. Віндовоз має вмерти!Anonymous
January 17, 2007
Congratulations on the milestone! I use IE7 and Firefox on an equal basis - it actually cool to run them side by side on my dual monitor system. Certain websites work better in one or the other. And I agree - it was a completely voluntary upgrade that I had the option of not choosing. For those of you who may whine and complain - relish the fact that you have a choice. Run them both - it won't hurt. I promise. LPAAnonymous
January 17, 2007
Did you guys see Slashdot this morning!!!! http://slashdot.org/articles/07/01/17/0311219.shtml Despite 100 Million (forced) IE7 installs, Firefox STILL GAINING! Ha, take that Kool-Aid Drinkers! http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196901142Anonymous
January 17, 2007
"Despite 100 Million (forced) IE7 installs, Firefox STILL GAINING!" Hmm. http://www.thecounter.com/stats/2006/December/browser.php http://www.thecounter.com/stats/2006/June/browser.php Yep, you're right. After 6 months FireFox (during which IE7 was released) gained a whole percent. I'm impressed. "Ha, take that Kool-Aid Drinkers!" I believe the term is usually applied to the Firefox evangelists. "Did you guys see Slashdot this morning!!!!" Yes, including the torrent of rabbid 'Kool-Aid Drinkers'. Normally 90% of the comments are about how yet another opinionated/biased article has been put on Slashdot, but when it is against Microsoft suddenly everyone is drooling puddles. Of course you get a big reaction out of throwing a piece of meat into a pit of lions. Also: "Also, at the risk of sounding like a broken record, "Webstats are unreliable"." A broken record is usually best disposed of. Of course web stats are unreliable. But if you have a big enough of a sample size and a big enough spread you can get some semi reliable numbers. http://www.thecounter.com/stats/2006/June/index.php 100 million visitors I think that counts as a pretty decent sample size.Anonymous
January 17, 2007
From the very article you mention: "The impact of the automatic upgrade was easy to see when compared with the much slower uptake of Firefox 2.0, the browser Mozilla introduced in October 2006." IE7 pushes out a new version that is greatly appreciated and downloaded by many. And Firefox produces version 2 that is weak in features and still a memory hog and is a little bit more bloated with useless standard addons. And sure, some percentage of IE7 was through Automatic Updates, but you don't think Mozilla wish they could put Firefox 2 on their update program? (You know, just like how every single other program tells you when a new version is available) It's one of those pits they dug for themselves. They got mad at Microsoft for having IE recommend an update. This prevents them from doing the very same thing themself.Anonymous
January 17, 2007
Is there a version of IE7 available for Linux? Pleeeeze? I am currently running Firefox on Ubuntu, but all of those comments make me think that I am probably really missing out on cool features, though I don't quite understand what they are. Can someone explain what the "Spyware" package does? Is it available as .deb or would I have to spend the day compiling it from scratch?Anonymous
January 17, 2007
http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196900260 "The latter, although strictly not optional, are more intangible goals, such as "improve usability of Add-On Manager" or "simpler print preview dialog." The former, however, are more concrete, and include to-dos like "support Microsoft CardSpace" and "improve search, retrieval, and startup performance." Among the features currently pegged as must-haves by Mozilla for Firefox 3 are an overhaul of the browser's bookmark system and new identity management tools. " Looks like Firefox 3.0 will be much like 2.0. Too soon and too little improvements. They should've made Firefox 2.0 be 1.6, and 3.0 looks like it will be a 1.7, maybe 1.8. But everyone knows the reason they went to 2 and 3, is to project an image of accomplishment, and because IE went up a major version.Anonymous
January 17, 2007
Aedrin, excuse me, but don't speak about things that you are have no clue about. Spreading ignorance is never good. ThanksAnonymous
January 17, 2007
I was installing for the third time to try to get it working. And still it didn't work. I ended up uninstalling the third, and final, time. For some reason after the first install it cut off the first 256 characters of html on any page. On the second install it cut off the first 512 characters. On the third, 768 characters. Anybody else see the pattern? Good bye IE. I wish I could say I enjoyed having you around... but I was ecstatic when Firefox went RC1.Anonymous
January 17, 2007
congrats, you made a sucessful browser sucessful again... almost.. "Yet in the three months it's been available, Firefox's market share has continued to grow. " -slashdot gotta love it right?Anonymous
January 17, 2007
Just curious, how many uninstallations of IE7 were recorded? I think IE7 is a long way from being a great web browser.Anonymous
January 17, 2007
"Aedrin, excuse me, but don't speak about things that you are have no clue about. Spreading ignorance is never good." Making statements without any point is never good either. Yet... If I am speaking about something that I have no clue about, then show me what that is.Anonymous
January 17, 2007
@Aedrin I don't disagree that most users think the Web is the "Blue e" and thats all they understand. My point is that when you have a direct system in place, to spoon feed users (AU) the software you want them to install (IE7), it is very easy to get them to install it. If Firefox was in this list, it too would gain significant traction, just because it is "pushed" to the users, rather than the user having to go out of their way to get it. I'm not dumb, IE isn't going to disappear off the web browser market... ever. I just find the... "situation" to be interesting. For the people I talk to face to face (a few hundred), that have installed Firefox, they all love it, and have never looked back. Now since they obviously know IE already, to have made the choice to switch, they obviously found something of interest to keep them using Firefox. If Mozilla had the marketing/OS Dominance to peddle their software with the same ability MS has, I think the overall picture today, would look a heck of a lot different, thats all.Anonymous
January 17, 2007
While microsoft insist on making IE part of the OS it is always going to be a danger. At least with FF Opera etc I have the option to completely remove them from my system if I wish something that I cannot do with IE7.Anonymous
January 17, 2007
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January 17, 2007
Microsoft has full rights to distribute free updates from their AU system. It's not even unethical. Unethical would be selling software with unadvertised features and then forcing users to pay to 'unlock' these features (Apple's 802.11n, anyone? http://apcstart.com/4999/apple_to_slug_users_for_802_11n_enablers ) Besides, though it seems to fall on deaf ears, IE7 is not just eye-candy. It's a security update. Don't believe me? Just read the blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/08/24/717614.aspx . And that's only one example.Anonymous
January 17, 2007
@Yuri "Is there a version of IE7 available for Linux? Pleeeeze? I am currently running Firefox on Ubuntu, but all of those comments make me think that I am probably really missing out on cool features, though I don't quite understand what they are." Finally, someone figures out the truth! "Can someone explain what the "Spyware" package does?" Sorry, I forget that Linux people don't understand non-hacker programs. You see, there is no "Spyware" package with IE7. "Is it available as .deb or would I have to spend the day compiling it from scratch?" Assuming 'it' refers to the "Spyware package," yes, you would be able to find both a .deb and some source code. If 'it' refers to IE7 (poor, poor English... how they slaughter you), you are wrong both ways. Linux people wouldn't appreciate a .deb, and Microsoft is smart enough to make an OS that doesn't require programmer knowledge to simply install a browser (as opposed to other OS makers...).Anonymous
January 17, 2007
After a long wait, the newest Internet Explorer version is out, IE 7 release ( Team blog entry with download link). Without a doubt the most interesting 'feature' -- as far as us application developers are concerned -- is...Anonymous
January 17, 2007
Great, finally IE is feature-wise where Firefox was a year ago! I wonder how many of the 100 million were simple upgrades vs new installs, anyone?Anonymous
January 17, 2007
http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196901142 I find this article very interesting.Anonymous
January 17, 2007
IEBlog : 100 Million IE7 Installations! IE7의 설치가 1억건을 돌파했다는 소식입니다. GPM인 Tony Chor의 이야기를 그대로 옮겨 번역해보겠습니다:Anonymous
January 17, 2007
If you push a mandatory update through Windows Update or Microsoft Update.... yeah right.Anonymous
January 17, 2007
We have just started uninstalling IE7 because it stops Outlook printing Header info on certain html formated mails. Still there' no reason why a company would test it's flagship email client and it's flagship browser for compatibility before release - expecially if the release was via an auto update. ILAnonymous
January 17, 2007
So, is there any changes or hope to get IE7 for Windows 2000/S/AS (any)? It will be better.Anonymous
January 18, 2007
After waiting and watching and hoping that this thing would die (I know I was deluding myself), Internet Explorer 7 has cracked the 100 Million Download mark. I'm curious, who are these people, and why haven't they discovered that Firefox is better? Oh,Anonymous
January 18, 2007
Vote and Comment on this cough milestone at TagNe.ws http://www.tagne.ws/InternetTrends/100-Million-IE7-Installations-Guess-its-time-to-fix-that-CSS-after-all/Anonymous
January 18, 2007
"Vote and Comment on this cough milestone at TagNe.ws" Not only does the person get something completely wrong (where is it stated that the 100 million = 25%), it is also ridiculous for casual visitors to have to register/log in to post a comment. It's not a forum. "I'm curious, who are these people, and why haven't they discovered that Firefox is better?" Because it isn't. It's different. "http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196901142 I find this article very interesting." So do I. It shows how easy it is to manipulate numbers to make people believe anything. This is why opinion should never be in news.Anonymous
January 18, 2007
Just wondering something. In IE6 and IE7, when you right click on a form button, a context menu opens with 6 (and only 6) grayed out options. Whats the point in this? Is there plans to add options to this menu that would be handy? or to get rid of it? Just saw it and realized how ugly it looked. btw I was hoping to find an option to "submit" a form to a new tab, but obviously there wasn't one.Anonymous
January 18, 2007
@Aedrin, Just curious, what is your role in the business world? Am I right in guessing that you are a .Net/VB/ASP/C# or similar developer? I appreciate a good debate as much as anyone, but I must admit there seems to be a huge MS bias in your comments. Don't get me wrong, I'm pro-Mozilla/Opera/Safari/Konqueror/? too, but mainly for the standards support, security, features, and extensions.Anonymous
January 18, 2007
Mmm... Is this worth a celebration? I never used to turn to Firefox as often as I do since I installed IE7. It's slow, it slows my system, and it is still buggy.Anonymous
January 18, 2007
"I have no hesitation in recommending people who want to use IE to upgrade to IE7 because it is a better program that IE6 and on a par with Firefox." Except that if you use Windows 2000 (or earlier) you can't upgrade. It is only for people with certain Micorsoft products. So not only are users with older versions of the OS forced "to pay to 'unlock'" the secuity fixes, but those who have a hetrogenous OS envionment can't (by MS design) have a unifed browsing envionment. Effectively people who have spent substantial sums on MS product are being orphaned, again.Anonymous
January 18, 2007
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January 18, 2007
webpage failed to load or does not show correctly if i open multiple tabs like 7-10 or group tabs on favorite. I've seen so many IE 7 message: Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage. the website, connection, typing error is not the problem it's might be IE 7 This issue happen frequently now can you guys check this issue I'm having. I'm really tired clicking on the refreshed button all the time when i open group tabs on my favorite.Anonymous
January 18, 2007
"Just curious, what is your role in the business world? Am I right in guessing that you are a .Net/VB/ASP/C# or similar developer? I appreciate a good debate as much as anyone, but I must admit there seems to be a huge MS bias in your comments." Profesionally a variety of languages (PHP, JSP, HTML/CSS and JS). Personal use is indeed C#. You could call it a bias. And it probably is partially. But I'm also tired of everyone bashing Microsoft. Sure, they do some bad things. But everyone does. If only people got this upset at their governments and the large corporations, then maybe something real would change.Anonymous
January 18, 2007
Still has a serious DHTML bug.. any newsAnonymous
January 18, 2007
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January 18, 2007
"Windows 2000 is 7 years old" The point is this: intentionally or unintentionally, when you buy an MS product, you will eventually have to spend more money to continue using it. And this applies whether or not you need "new fuctionality", because you need to interact with the rest of the world. However if you are using Open Office or Firefox or Linux, while you may still need to upgrade, at least it won't cost you an arm and a leg. (And when you have a family, upgrading all their computers isn't cheap.)Anonymous
January 18, 2007
And further-more I can run Firefox on all the versions of MS Windows I have tried.Anonymous
January 18, 2007
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January 19, 2007
I simply can't avoid a mental image of Dr Evil shouting "One hundred MILLION installations..."Anonymous
January 19, 2007
100 million installations because it installs automatically. What about uninstalls? Do they keep a record of that? Most users are clueless and just let Microsoft update do what it wants. Just because you have 100 million installs doesn't mean everyone likes it. We're sticking to IE6 for a while. Until MS works out some of the issues and allows for better customization, especially that wreched toolbar.Anonymous
January 19, 2007
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January 19, 2007
@Aedrin: Right on. Linux users are ALWAYS geeks, or have been forced to use Linux by a geek (note: I consider geek to be complimentary... please don't think I'm insulting anyone). They don't think it tough to sit for five hours fixing a typo in code. For a normal, average computer user, though, hours of just getting the software to work doesn't cut it. They're more willing to use software that installs cleanly and just works, even if the css support or dhtml or whatever isn't completely right. Beware, O Linux afficionado. To be recognized by the masses, you must program for the masses.Anonymous
January 19, 2007
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January 19, 2007
PLEASE FIX the following:
- Each time IE7 is opened, the value of the "Width" entry in registry key HKUuserSoftwareMicrosoftInternet ExplorerLinksExplorer automatically increments by 1 !! Stop this crazyness.
- Please make IE7 remember the previous PIN STATUS after the FAVORITE CENTER is closed. Each time favorite center is closed then reopen, it will be back to non-pined state regardless if it was pinned before or not. It either should be remembered by default or at least an option somewhere to have it remembered would help. Thank you!
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January 20, 2007
Hmm... I really do not understand why would people want FireFox as their primary web browser. I really, really do not understand it. Is it so good? I was using IE6, then I heard about Firefox. I used it for 20 minutes in my life and I do not want it anymore. The reason? I couldn't get 'into' that user experience. It's so awful. But when I used IE7, I can really get into That user experience, even though the refresh and stop button changed their places. IE7 is great, it looks so cool, unlike ff2 which is so so brownish.Anonymous
January 20, 2007
> Hmm... I really do not understand why would people want FireFox as their primary web browser. > I couldn't get 'into' that user experience. Well, that's actually the reason. Most people who switched from IE to any other browser tried it and concluded it's better for them. Tastes are different. Please don't dislike me because I browse with Fx. I don't dislike you because you're happy with IE :-)Anonymous
January 20, 2007
For those people who don't get their comments posted, please go to http://liveside.net, it seems that there's a place useful where they would listen and make a difference.Anonymous
January 20, 2007
Well I didn't make it in my last post to IE blog. I filled it some links that offer some criticisms to IE and somehow it got filtered out. I didn't save my blog so I lost it and felt completely disheartened to write again. I decided to write once again, but if it get filtered then I will never post back and continue using FireFox.
- It's valuable to have someone like Jon Udell on MS because he offers opinions that is 1. useful, 2. doesn't carry the IE-hatred so many of us share now. So please, spend sometimes to talk with him: http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/01/17/rewriting-the-web-with-msie/#comment-246
- Anonymous
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January 20, 2007
- I've heard a lot of bad things about the Trident engine. Although it's unlikely (and not possible) for you guys to use Gecko, at least re-develop the IE layout engine since it's so vilified. IE is probably the MOST important feature for MS besides Windows and Office and since it's the gateway to the Internet. So pour more resources in a better Trident engine!!!
- Anonymous
January 20, 2007
- Develop IE not as a program but as a platform! Creately a configurable add-on/plug-in platform for IE and most importantly, a scripting engine (like greasemonkey). FF still has a horrible platform for developing plug-in and that's keeping me from playing with it, although I may now the basic FF is just not good enough for my needs). Since .NET is such an integrated platform for MS, why not creating an platform for developing IE plug-in using C# or VB! The community will be thrilled since C#/VB is so much easier to code than C.
- Anonymous
January 20, 2007
- Develop Linux/Solaris version for IE. That's not only technologically necessary but is a conciliatory gesture to the IT community. Let's face it, there are just situations that a user cannot run Windows. So, if a user has to choose from the best browsers available, does IE want to be in the list? And, it also stops the marginalization and conversion to FF.
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January 20, 2007
Yes...you CAN add add-ons on IE, just that not many people are really interested in doing that... why has IE alienated the people who would most probably create plugin and stimulate a vibrant community instead of a dormant one? The way i view it, IE is still a 'dead' system, but FF is live. See: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/01/pinocchio-problem.htmlAnonymous
January 20, 2007
- Open sourcing IE may be an option. I will stay on the technical side on this: IE's development time is longer than FF, and probably won't be able to catch up unless much more resource is poured into it. I don't know how much proprietary code is there in IE, but if you are offering it for free then at least you expect your revenue does not directly come from the sales. I think IE is more like a PR engine, open source it would show how much IE is clearer and superior to other browsers. Does the IE team have enough pride in their code to demonstrate it to the world? Well sorry for making many comparisons with FF. Hope my opinions can be constructive.
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January 22, 2007
when will Ms stop copying MozillaAnonymous
January 22, 2007
And when will people get of MSFT's back for ‘copying’ Mozilla, I mean personally, I’d say that as long as a feature is worth copying (e.g. is very popular and makes browsing easy), then why shouldn't a company (and I'm speaking more widely than Microsoft, here) adopt something similar within their own product. After all, are you really suggesting that this is the only industry where copying takes place. I would suggest that to some degree or another, it's pretty universal. I would agree that it is important for MSFT to come up with some of their own ideas, which will help distinguish it from the other browsers out there. However, I for one can’t wait for the to introduce (amongst others), things like an inbuilt spell checker, tab history (to re-open any previously closed tabs) and a restore last browsing session for if a session gets terminated unexpectedly. Yes, I'm pretty sure these are all features already in the latest FF, but I know they would make my life much easier when using IE (which - like many people - remains my primary browser). Since we are on the subject of what you guys are doing next, I would just like to join the growing calls to start getting some news on IE 8, as I to have heard the reports of its possible release within 12-18 months, along with the fact that you guys already have a version in testing internally. If that timing at least proves accurate, then now would be the time to start blogging about it, since you where talking about IE 7, for a lot longer than 12-18 months, lol.Anonymous
January 23, 2007
I am really disappointed by the backward step as far as zoom is concerned. The change of default behaviour to whole page zoom may appeal to designers who don't care about accessibility. But it means that, ** as soon as I want to increase the size of a page (CTRL +, or, CTRL Wheel) it almost always means sideways scrolling; ** if I laboriously, with much mousing around, change the text size via menu option, you instantly zap it back to medium if I then use whole page zoom. This is a BUG; ** change text size is far too laborious and inflexible, without the precision or scope needed; ** and am I right in thinking that a side effect is that I can no longer zoom the text in Outlook at all????? This is a BUG. How am I supposed to read tiny type emails? ** when I use the zoom, change windows and come back, what I was reading has scrolled sideways partly off the screen. This is a BUG. ** do you not think you have any users with sight worse than that of a healthy 20 year old? How on earth can you be proud of this? You've had a discussion at http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/02/07/526805.aspx which makes clear what is needed. The default control needs to go back to what it was before. If people want the new zoom behaviour it should be a different control mechanism. THIS IS AN URGENT BUG FIX as well as a huge misjudgement and shouldn't have to wait for the next major upgrade.Anonymous
January 23, 2007
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January 24, 2007
A disingenuous blog. IE7 is pushed by Microsoft update. What can we infer, however, from the fact that so few people have chosen to install it since it became available?Anonymous
January 24, 2007
http://blogs.msdn.com/michkap/archive/2007/01/25/1526224.aspAnonymous
January 25, 2007
ok i dont get this i have just now got the ie7 and i dont like it the bars are all messed up and it let me pick my search engine thats ok but it put a address bar on the top right corner for it and i have a google toolbar already on my system i like it for some of the other fetures i dont want both and since the ie7 one is well nothing and i read something about they arnt concerned with making changes to the bars because no one really cares what the heck are the rest of us who dont like it have to do just suffer or go back to ie6????????Anonymous
January 25, 2007
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January 26, 2007
When is the exact date of the mui pack release of Internet explorer 7.0 ? And don't remove my post again, what did I say wrong ??? Just told ie7 messed up languages between xp pro and ie7 "The states are for their freedom but not for the freedom of speech of others..."Anonymous
February 01, 2007
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