Microsoft IE 7 released

AFTER YEARS of dominating most of the known world with its Internet Exploder 6, Microsoft has finally managed to get IE 7 out the door.

The full verson of IE 7 which has been in development for nearly two years can be downloaded here.

Writing in his bog, Dean Hachamovitch, Microsoft's general manager of IE, announced the release of the full version yesterday.

The new version comes comes with a Phishing Filter and the architectural work in IE7 around networking and ActiveX opt-in will help keep users more secure, he said.

It also features tabbed browsing, which is a popular idea nicked from IE's open sauce rival, FireFox.

Although the first version is in the language called "American English" there are more than 24 localised language versons planned. The first Arabic, Finnish, French, German, Japanese, and Spanish language versions will be out in a couple of weeks.

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