IE7 Released and Available for Download

Luis Escalante writes "After over a year and a half, IE7 has been released to the public as of Monday afternoon. Download it directly here. Word hit the streets after several mangers of the IE division posted on the IE blog."

Security patches

[TommydCat]

in 3..2..1...

Oh thank Christ..

[QuantumG]

of course, I would have prefered them to have released it before I bowed to management and hacked around all the non-standard shit in IE6 which IE7 fixes. urg!

I'm not going to get it

[atomicthumbs]

I'll use Firefox (and OPera, if a plugin for Stumbleupon is released for it) for the rest of my life. Failing that, I'll use the worldf's most secure broswer: Mosaic 1.0!

Several Mangers?

[Guido del Confuso]

Word hit the streets after several mangers of the IE division posted on the IE blog.

It's official--IE7 is the web browser used by Jesus!

Re:What happened?

[Anonymous Coward]

keylogger

I prefer to think of it as...

[patio11]

"Yay, finally half of my incoming support calls will vanish without me needing to make a housecall to install Firefox first."

I can't seem to download it...

[DaveM753]

IE6 keeps crashing due to all of the spyware/malware/trojans that installed themselves.

;-)

People will be working hard tonight!

[Rendo]

Agent: Thank you for calling tech support, how can we help you? Customer: I just installed an update to IE and my internet is now broke. Agent: *sigh* You're only the 500th person in the last hour to call, there's not much we can do call M$ since their sad attempt at catching up with the times is too little too late and to boot it wasn't done as best as possible. I suggest you use FireFox instead! Customer: What's FireFox? Agent: You know how girlfriends are better than wives? Customer: Uh... sure. Agent: FireFox is your sexy girlfriend, while IE is your ugly wife. Customer: Thanks for the help!

Anyone know

[kihjin]

... when the Linux port will be available? ;)

*ducks*

Re:Ah yes.....

[wkitchen]

The massive stampede to go out and download this truly amazing piece of software.

chirp...

chirp...

Re:Actually

[arth1]

Sadly, you still can't ignore IE.

Watch me.

Alternate download link

[Anonymous Coward]

www.ie7.com [ie7.com]

Is it me or?

[sponga]

Does IE7 not render Slashdot right.

I sometimes get the comments overlapping eachother.
Only reason I have FF loaded is for Slashdot.

IE division mangers

[mybecq]

... after several mangers of the IE division posted on the IE blog.

Several cattle and horses also tried to post, but they were quickly herded back into the cubicles.

Re:What happened?

[electronerdz]

What worries me about the Flash player update are the people who are downloading it:

THANK YOU A BILLION TIMES!!! OMG THIS IS SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO GREAT. FINALLY AN ALSA-FLASHPLAYER!!
still cant believe it =)
niiiiiiiiiiiice nicenicenicenicenicennice.!!

*kisses*

OMG!!! PONIES!!!

World's most secure browser:

[Anonymous Coward]

the original www text client.

Re:On wine under Edge Eft

[DaveM753]

Response #1:
Hmmmm....did you try installing Wine-dows Genuine Advantage?

Response #2:
"Please verify that you have proper permissions."
You have to ask Bill G really nicely.

Re:What happened?

[babbling]

Flash 9 for Linux is newsworthy, too, but this is a new version of the best Firefox download tool available on Windows!

Re:What happened?

[Sancho]

I may be paranoid, but on a new install of Windows, I usually use FTP to get Moz builds. Just in case I mistype the name or something and hit a site with malware.

No Mac Version?

[MightyYar]

Hmmm, I can't seem to find the Mac version. I guess I'll have to keep using 5.2. I don't see it for HP-UX or Solaris, either. I wonder if this is a mistake, or if those rascals at Microsoft are up to something?

Re:Anyone know

[ashwinds]

Two weeks after apple releases the safari port.

Re:What happened?

[SpaceballsTheUserNam]

FINALLY! thabks for the update

Re:What happened?

[Foofoobar]

Oddly enough it won't. It will only affect web developers who code to non-standards. Most of us code to a set of standards so that all our code can work well in ALL browsers not just IE. Those who focus on IE only and use IE specific tags and ActiveX usually put themselves out of a job by neglecting a large percentage of the market and cause enough complaints by consumers/users that the whole app has to be rebuilt. So no... this won't really affect us. Not for at least another 5 years...

Re:People will be working hard tonight!

[aussie_a]

Customer: Where can I locate this sexy girlfriend?

Agent: Just go to firefox.com

Customer: But.... I can't. My internet is broken. I already told you that.

Agent: Aaaaah... I gotta go. Bye.

Re:What happened?

[FoXDie]

Yeah because my grandma is just dying to start all over again and learn Linux.

Re:Is it me or?

[aussie_a]

Sounds pretty cool to me :) I hope Slashdot doesn't fix it.

Tabs!

[BeeBeard]

Guys, you've gotta try this tabbed browsing! Have you ever seen anything like it before?!?

*wink*

Re:What happened?

[Anonymous Coward]

Actually... I don't think your karma is going to hell for that. I'm just basing this off of myself, but I think I tend to fall fairly heavily on the viciously anti-M$ zealotry side of things, and I've certainly modded pro-M$ rants down to hell in the past, but I like the way you think... turning an observation that is favorable for Microsoft into something that's positive for the rest of us. It's just looking at the glass as being half full. Or, in Microsoft's case, looking at the app as beign half full of bugs instead of half empty of stability.

I don't know where I'm going with this any more. Better protect my karma and post as AC.

Re:What happened?

[hdparm]

I wonder what is it that she knows about Windows? Does she double-click icons in some other way? Or is it that she can't switch because she is a devoted gamer?

Re:Actually

[LinuxIsRetarded]

I can see the Slashdot headline now: "Microsoft declares bankruptcy; credits single idiot's refusal to download IE7 with downfall of company."

Re:What happened?

[Aranwe Haldaloke]

I may be more paranoid than you, but I usually use wget to download NcFTP to get Moz builds.

Re:Security patches

[telso]

I think you mean security holes; the patches won't come until the second Tuesday of next month.

e17 is being released?!?

[bunbuntheminilop]

*puts on glasses*

Oh! Ie7! My bad!

Re:What happened?

[sumdumass]

No, no no.. It is that grandma doesn't do much of anything but cause problems with her windows allowing me to come over and fix it. I look like a genuis and I am pretty much guarenteed a place in her will.

Fist, I try the trained monkey thing were I just click things and see what happens. If that doesn't work, I try looking for help on the interweb, If that doesn't work I'll post something on a message board or maybe microsoft's help and support mailing list, If still nothing after a day or so, I just reload everything and talk about how tuff it was. I might even throw out some scarry words like virus, spyware and malware. Generaly it isn't any of them but grandma has heard just enough of it on the eveniing news to know it is something to be reconed with.

Now everything works and I'm the hero! You see, If i install linux, I would likley loose the chance of being the hero, possible the spot in her will, and if something actualy did mess up, I would have to call someone who actualy knows something to fix it. So windows is good, linux is bad.

Next round of CSS fixes

[gnool]

in 476,318,033.. 476,318,032.. 476,318,031..

Re:Security patches

[Anonymous Coward]

'Oh my God, the sky is falling'

Get a hold of yourself you idiot, its just a browser!

Re:Security patches

[torstenvl]

Can we mod -1 Deliberately Uninformative?

I thought the burden of proof was usually on the guy who asserts something.

Re:"funny" but true

[NetDanzr]

Same here. All it did after about fifteen minutes of installing was to give me the link to a IE Troubleshooting page [microsoft.com], where I found out that "Something has caused the computer not to trust the Internet Explorer 7 installation package."

It was bound to happen eventually: my computer became smarter than me....