Well, it's official. At the RSA Security Conference happening in San Francisco at the moment, Bill Gates has announced a new version of Internet Explorer 7 will be released.
By that, it can be reasonably inferred, he means by itself, and before Longhorn ships, as has been the expected plan until now. Of course, with Longhorn not due for another who-knows-how-many years, it was in Microsoft's best interests to get cracking, as Firefox usage is still rapidly gaining favour, and stealing back the net users MS deviously sought from Netscape a-way back.
According to Reuters, testing of IE 7 will happen over summer in the US, which makes me believe they have, in fact, been working on this one for some time.
The important questions now, of course, is just how long it will take them to actually ship it out the door, and whether it will merely be a patched up IE 6, full of the same security holes, or a completely new version, from ground up.
And so the browser wars heat up. Watch this space for more.
Wednesday, February 16, 2005
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