Archive for June, 2006

This morning we released IE7 Beta 3 for Windows XP. This version includes improvements in reliability, compatibility, security, and a few end user features. Give it a try at http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/default.mspx.

Based on your feedback, we’ve made some changes to IE7. Beta 3 returns the email button to the toolbar customize dialog (one of the most requested features), and enables reordering of tabs by dragging them to the left or right. In this version you can also scroll horizontally while zooming.  To improve the RSS experience, IE7 now allows you to update all your RSS feeds on-demand as well as mark them all “READ”.

Beta 3 also contains all the security fixes addressed in the June IE security bulletin, so we encourage all Beta 2 users to upgrade to Beta 3.

Please remember to uninstall any previous IE7 builds before installing this one. IE7 Beta 3 runs on Windows XP SP2, Windows XP x64, and Windows Server 2003 SP1. This beta does not install on Windows Vista Beta 2; a new version of IE7+ in Windows Vista will be available with the next public Windows Vista release soon. IE7 still replaces IE6; if you’re a developer and need to have both IE6 and IE7 on a single machine, I recommend Microsoft Virtual PC (here’s a link to their 45-day free trial version) or Chris Wilson’s post on the subject.

As with Beta 2, we’ll release German, Finnish, Arabic, and Japanese versions in the next few weeks.

I’m looking forward to reading the feedback - positive and negative - as it comes in. I also want to encourage developers, web developers, designers, and IT Pros to use Readiness Toolkit to help you deliver the best possible experience to your sites’ IE7 visitors.

Today’s release is the final beta for IE7. Our next steps are the Release Candidates followed by general availability in the second half of the year.

Thanks,
Dean Hachamovitch
General Manager

What’s the secret to living in the moment? That’s what Answerer Norbie is wondering, and I think we’d all like to have some light shed on that question. It’s not a new concept, but aside from listening to the many artists who have pondered the notion, have you really ever taken the time to think about what “living in the moment” means? I haven’t, and had this question not been asked, I probably never would have.

My first instinct was to say that it takes a certain type of person to live in the moment. You know the type – the carefree-you-only-have-one-life-to-live daredevil who makes the most out of each day. And as somebody who is very practical, I don’t really fit that profile. I’m the type of person that plans for the future rather than lives in the moment.

But then I started thinking that maybe living in the moment isn’t synonymous with doing great big astonishing things without caring about what happens tomorrow. I think as long as you appreciate any moment at the time you are living it, then you are living in that moment. Does that make sense?

Lydia