Internet Explorer 7 for Windows Vista

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With Internet Explorer 7 for Windows Vista, Microsoft shores up Internet Explorer's crumbling security status and takes aim at its biggest rivals.

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Reviewed by: Robert Vamosi
Edited by: Allen Fear
Reviewed on: 10/27/2005

The latest Windows Vista software build offers a fairly complete look inside the new Internet Explorer. Called Internet Explorer 7 for Windows Vista, it differs significantly from Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP Beta, currently available to the public. With this new browser, Microsoft shores up Internet Explorer's crumbling security status and takes aim at its biggest rivals. Be sure to see our slideshow for Internet Explorer 7 for Windows Vista here

Microsoft did an extreme makeover of the traditional Internet Explorer toolbar, and for the most part, we like it.

Upside: Like FireFox, Internet Explorer boasts built-in tabs, allowing you to open several pages within a single instance of Internet Explorer. You can save groups of tabs within Internet Explorer 7 for Windows Vista, too. A cool new Internet Explorer-only feature allows you to view thumbnails of all open tabs--these are live page views, so you can visually keep track of streaming video feeds and updated text news sites. As in Opera, Microsoft added zoom capabilities within Internet Explorer 7 for Windows Vista, allowing you to examine tiny images up close without much image loss. For security, there's a new ActiveX opt-in center, so you can monitor and control ActiveX on individual Web pages. There's also built-in antiphishing protection; when you surf to a page that Microsoft has recognized as a potentially dangerous site, you'll see a warning.

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"Better than I thought"

by Ed-duh-win on May 23, 2006

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"The browser wars are over: Microsoft surrenders!"

by DarkHawke on October 31, 2005

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"Pathetic, absolutely pathetic."

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