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Internet Explorer 7

By Robert Vamosi on 19 October 2006

IE 7 was Microsoft's one chance to leapfrog ahead of the competition, but the company has only barely caught sight of the current front-runners. For more features and greater security, switch to Mozilla Firefox.

Editor's rating:7.0 User rating:3.9

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  Gene gave 2/10 on 01/11/2006 15:58 Report abuse

  When downloading stock quotes from Yahoo usinf IE7, I can not find "save as" so can save to Lotus. Could do in 6 but can not find in 7. Help pls.

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  Anonymous gave 2/10 on 28/10/2006 14:03 Report abuse

  why bother

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  Anonymous gave 8/10 on 27/10/2006 05:10 Report abuse

  Great except some bugs, like tollbars not moving

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  Confused/Amused gave 2/10 on 25/10/2006 22:48 Report abuse

  microsoft have lost the plot ...indeed thats if they had one to begin with(except world domination!)

  lol, apparently cnet won't allow me to select 1 as my user rating so i used 2 ...but seriously its a big fat MINUS ONE!

  • Good: abosultely sod all!
    
    And why is it when you run system info and view the internet explorer files section 50% of the files have not been update??
    
    And what is the point of placing the run ie without add-ons in the system tools folder??? is that weird or what?
  • Bad: weird layout, stupid looking gui, i mean please, this is what they thought looked better than luna?! rofl
    
    "IE 7 still uses the IE 4 Web engine" ...really? so please tell me what was the point in even bothering to update it?? ...LONG LIVE FIREFOX!!!
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  Brandon gave 6/10 on 23/10/2006 07:10 Report abuse

  An Decent browser, but only that, nothing exeptional

  Microsoft is playing catch up with this release, and essentially, they have succeded in adding some mich requested features, but i can see Internet explorer 7 traveling the same path as 6, Security problems, few updates compared to other browsers. Internet explorer 7 is ok overall, but Stick with firefox or opera.

  • Good: Tabbed browsing, Fast, More secure, antiphishing, quick tabs, png support
  • Bad: Odd layout, why are all the nav buttons scattered everywhere? doesn't make sense, non fully standards compliant, choppy scrolling, not much space on the tab bar.
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  Anonymous gave 2/10 on 23/10/2006 07:06 Report abuse

  un user-friendly

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  Anonymous gave 8/10 on 23/10/2006 06:40 Report abuse

  much much better from MS

  • Good: uncluttered toolbar
    tabbed browsing
    
  • Bad: Would be nice to be able to re arrange the buttons
    Not fully standards compliant
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  N3TIZ3N gave 4/10 on 21/10/2006 20:31 Report abuse

  RE: Yet another "me-too" product from MS

  In case your wonder why my post appears twice - well you can blame IE 7 for that, it reposted my Data when I attempted to retrieve an earlier page...

  • Good: Tabbed browsing
    Anti-phishing Technology (finally)
  • Bad: Too little - too late
    Lack of W3C support
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  N3TIZ3N gave 5/10 on 21/10/2006 20:29 Report abuse

  Yet another "me-too" product from MS

  Re: Waycool's comment that conformance doesn't matter - I couldn't disagree more.
  
  As a network engineer I shudder any time someone in IT says standards don't matter - because it undoes all the hard work the people who INVENTED the INTERNET work towards... I mean lets get serious people, how well do you think the Internet would work if WINS (Microsoft NetBIOS name service) was your protocol of choice for name resolution... ummm not very well at all which is why MS now use DNS which was, ummm the standard!?!?!
  
  Same thing applies to W3C standards, this is the group of smart people responsible for maintaining the standards which make the Web serving the independent body it is today - MS IE 7.0 being the poorly written piece of code that it is (now that I've tried it), I'll be back on Firefox thank you very much, it didn't delivery anything I didn't already have with a good standard compliant browser and a good A/V anti-phishing package - and IE 7 was a memory hog to boot (what a surprise there), so I won't be going there until I throw another gigabyte of RAM into my machine.

  • Good: Tabbed browsing
    Anti-phishing Technology (finally)
  • Bad: Too little - too late
    Lack of W3C support
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  N3TIZ3N gave 5/10 on 21/10/2006 19:08 Report abuse

  Yet another "me-too" product from MS

  Re: Waycool's comment that conformance doesn't matter - I couldn't disagree more.
  
  As a network engineer I shudder any time someone in IT says standards don't matter - because it undoes all the hard work the people who INVENTED the INTERNET work towards... I mean lets get serious people, how well do you think the Internet would work if WINS (Microsoft NetBIOS name service) was your protocol of choice for name resolution... ummm not very well at all which is why MS now use DNS which was, ummm the standard!?!?!
  
  Same thing applies to W3C standards, this is the group of smart people responsible for maintaining the standards which make the Web serving the independent body it is today - MS IE 7.0 being the poorly written piece of code that it is (now that I've tried it), I'll be back on Firefox thank you very much, it didn't delivery anything I didn't already have with a good standard compliant browser and a good A/V anti-phishing package - and IE 7 was a memory hog to boot (what a surprise there), so I won't be going there until I throw another gigabyte of RAM into my machine.

  • Good: Tabbed browsing
    Anti-phishing Technology (finally)
  • Bad: Too little - too late
    Lack of W3C support