Bill Gates announced that IE 7 will be available sometime next year. The beta testing of the product will begin this summer. Some interesting notes. IE7 will be a stand alone product, not bundled with Windows. IE7 will require Windows XP SP2 or higher. Remember that support for Windows 98 has ended? Support for Windows 2000 ends this year.
There is a lot of talk about Microsoft doing this only because Firefox, an Internet Explorer alternative, has been gaining market share. To a certain extent this may be true. Internet Explorer has been rather dormant with not much more than security updates. However, I think that the delay in the next version of Windows, code named Longhorn, has caused Microsoft to scramble a little as well. Longhorn was always supposed to include a new browser. The release of Longhorn is now scheduled for 2006. This move actually allows Microsoft to test the new browser's features and gives them time to refine things before Longhorn is released.
As soon as the beta is released we will begin testing it and post our findings here.
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