The New Internet Explorer 7

Microsoft released its newest web browser last year, but it was only available for only a limited users as it requires your Windows to pass the Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA)


Microsoft Aims for Safe Computing

Microsoft released the newest Internet Explorer 7 last 2006, and it's the safest Internet Explorer to date, Microsoft said. It sports a cleaner interface, tabbed browsing, always available search box, built-in phishing security feature, pop up blocker, and dozens of new security features. Deleting history, cookies, and temporary files is also made easier with a single click of a button. And finally, Internet Explorer 7 supports transparency for PNG files - a feature supported by other browsers long before.

Internet Explorer 7 was a nice addition to the IE family, but was only available to users running genuine Windows. Before you can download the installer, your computer has to pass the WGA. Not only that, to protect it from being installed to computers running a non-genuine copy of Windows, the installer itself validates your computer before installation.

However, this October, Microsoft removed the validation requirement for Internet Explorer 7. This makes the new web browser available for all users running Windows XP SP2, even if they are running copies of Windows that do not pass the WGA. This will make IE available to a broader public.

While this may look like another attempt to monopolize the web browser business, Microsoft said this move was to increase the security of Windows and the computing world, as this was one of the aims of the company. With the new security features of Internet Explorer 7, surfing the web is safer than before.

You can download the latest version off the Microsoft site.

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