Less than 24 hours after its final release, Internet Explorer 7 has been found to be vulnerable to an exploit dating back to November 2003, which was discovered affecting IE6 last April. The issue surrounds Microsoft's handling of MIME HTML resources.
Internet Explorer 7 has just been released. The build number is 7.0.5730.11 and is approximately 16mb in size. This build does not require you to uninstall previous builds before installing, it is now done automatically during the installation process.
Yahoo beats Microsoft to punch with IE update. It posts an optimised version of Internet Explorer 7 before Microsoft's own final release of the browser.
Microsoft plans to release Internet Explorer 7 as a 'high priority update' when they put out their regular Tuesday security patches. Anyone who has not configured or switched off the Microsoft automatic download and install update patches will automatically have IE7 installed on their machines.
The Internet Explorer 7 team announced yesterday in their blog that the product, currently in its release candidate cycle, is due to launch to the web in its final version this month.
Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) Release Candidate 1 (RC1) has been designed to make everyday tasks easier, provide dynamic security protection and improve the development platform and manageability. End user improvements include a streamlined interface, tabbed browsing, printing advances, improved search functionality, instant feeds (RSS), dynamic security protection, and more.
The RC1 build includes improvements in performance, stability, security, and application compatibility. With this build, Microsoft has also made enhancements to the fit and finish of the user interface, completed CSS platform changes, added language support and included an auto-uninstall feature in Setup, which automatically uninstalls prior betas of IE7 making installing the new build even easier.
Microsoft plans to automatically push Internet Explorer 7 to Windows XP users when the browser update is ready later this year.
IE 7 will be delivered in the fourth quarter as a "high priority" update via Automatic Updates in Windows XP, Gary Schare, Microsoft's director of IE product management, said in an interview Tuesday. Automatic Updates is a Windows feature typically used for security updates, but Microsoft has also used it to push its antipiracy tool WGA Notifications.
Microsoft have just released Internet Explorer 7 Beta 3 to the public. The new beta build is available for all the major Windows Platforms. The new beta holds the build number 5450, and was compiled on the 23rd of this month.