[campjeffay]

As I was doing the daily web browsing rounds the last couple days I've come across some articles on Internet Explorer 7 and its features. Which got me thinking? What's taken so long? When did IE 6 orginally come out?

[LukeW]

6.0August 27, 2001Release History:6.0 Beta 1March 2001More CSS changes and bug fixes to be more W3C-compliant.6.0August 27, 2001Final release.Windows XP6.0 SP1September 9, 2002Vulnerability patch. Last version for Windows prior to Windows XP.Windows XP SP16.0 SP2August 25, 2004Vulnerability patch. Popup/ActiveX blocker. Add-on manager.Windows XP SP2

en.wikipedia.org

[anjié ♥]

Version 6 was released on August 27, 2001, a few weeks before Windows XP. This version included DHTML enhancements, content restricted inline frames, and better support of CSS level 1, DOM level 1 and SMIL 2.0. The MSXML engine was also updated to version 3.0. Other new features included a new version of the IEAK, Media bar, Windows Messenger integration, fault collection, automatic image resizing, P3P, and a new look-and-feel that is in line with the style of Windows XP.On February 15, 2005, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates announced that the new version of its browser will be released at the RSA Conference 2005 in San Francisco [3]. The decision to update the browser occurred in the wake of a decline in the use of Internet Explorer for the first time. Microsoft also stated that Internet Explorer 7 will only be available for Windows XP SP2 and later, including Windows Server 2003 SP1 and Windows Vista. The first beta version of the browser was released on July 27, 2005 for technical testing, and a first public preview version of Internet Explorer 7 (Beta 2 preview) was released on January 31, 2006. Verison 7 is intended to defend users from phishing as well as deceptive or malicious software, and also features full user control of ActiveX, and better security framework. It includes important bug fixes, enhancements to support the web standards, improvements in HTML 4.01/CSS 2, Tabbed Browsing, Tab preview/ management, and web feeds reader. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer

[stefonopimpmathhero]

between 2000 and 2002.