Microsoft to Ship IE7 in 2005

Rather unexpectedly Microsoft have just announced that they WILL be releasing IE7 separately from Longhorn. That's a turnup for the books! It looks like Firefox is having it's desired effect... I'm a little nervous about what bugs they'll choose to fix but I'm also quite excited about possible feature additions. Surely they won't fix the * html bug but not sort out their rendering inconsistencies... will they? Please please please sort out PNG support though...

My only real reservation about the whole thing is that they've decided to make the upgrade available only to XP SP2 users, about half of the Windows population. That means that we're definitely still going to have to code for IE5 and IE6, with no option of an upgrade for those folk. Apart from Firefox, of course!

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