Posted on Tuesday, January 31, 2006
It's been in a restricted-access beta for a couple of months now, but today Microsoft opened the gates (sorry) and announced that Internet Explorer 7 is now available as a public beta for any interested parties to download.
Begun, this browser war has...
UPDATE (Feb. 1, 2006): Wow. Um, OK. So it turns out they have completely ditched the standard Windows human interface rules:
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Note the complete absence of a menu bar, and the migration of the taskbar icons to the right of the (new) tab strip.
I suppose that I shouldn't be surprised, given how MS has already thrown out the Windows UI in Office, but it's still a little disorienting to see a Microsoft application with an out-of-left-field UI.
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There just following the practices of other windows developers of inventing your own UI for every application, ala winamp / trillian / etc. Ooo - rounded windows and non square apps, you must be l77t!