IE 7 Released

Inernet Explorer 7 (beta) was released on Thursday, and stories about it are making their way to the web. From the first real screenshots, it seems that the browser has buttons that make it look somewhat "Firefox-y." (Maybe if we make it look like Firefox…)

The most interesting story surrounding the beta’s release is a report on The Register about numerous reports from beta testers saying that their Yahoo! and Google toolbars had vanished. As in disappeared completely. Hmmm…

However, the self-proclaimed Microsoft geek blogger said he spoke with Dean Hachamovitch, the guy who runs the IE team, and reports that Dean says that they
tested with the Google and Yahoo toolbar and it was running on their
machines and they
in no way are trying to block the Google toolbar from working. He says
that he commits to everyone to getting the toolbar to work and if
there’s something that isn’t working the IE team wants to know about it
so they can fix it.

So, the blogging community is keeping Microsoft honest, and Microsoft is keeping the community posted on what they’re doing and what their intentions are. I’d say that’s exactly how it should be.