{"id":9622,"date":"2006-10-11T07:02:50","date_gmt":"2006-10-11T06:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=5"},"modified":"2006-10-11T07:02:50","modified_gmt":"2006-10-11T06:02:50","slug":"ie7-to-be-released-18th-october-three-years-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/9622-ie7-to-be-released-18th-october-three-years-late.html","title":{"rendered":"IE7 to be released 18th October, three years late"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft&#8217;s updated browser is <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/hied_mid-atlantic\/archive\/2006\/10\/10\/Internet-Explorer-7-is-coming-this-month-_2E002E002E00_-Are-you-ready_3F00_.aspx\">released next week<\/a>, and will be distributed via automatic update from November 1st.<\/p>\n<p>It is three years late. Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/History_of_Internet_Explorer\">release history<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Version 1.0 August 1995<\/li>\n<li>Version 2.0 November 1995<\/li>\n<li>Version 3.0 August 1996<\/li>\n<li>Version 4.0 September 1997<\/li>\n<li>Version 5.0 March 1999<\/li>\n<li>Version 6.0 August 2001<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On a (reasonable) two year release cycle, we should have had version 7.0 in 2003. Let me add that version 6.0 was really a disappointment; more like version 5.1 in some ways. Microsoft won the browser wars, then stalled the progress of web standards for five years. It was the growing popularity of Firefox, released in November 2004, that persuaded Microsoft to restart development. There would in any case have been some sort of update in Windows Vista; but without the open source competition I doubt it would have amounted to much.<\/p>\n<p>The history leaves a bad taste and makes it hard to enthuse about IE7. Nevertheless, it is a badly-needed update. I&#8217;m inclined to leave the blow-by-blow comparison with Firefox to others.<\/p>\n<p>The one piece I can enthuse about is the centralized RSS store that comes as part of IE. This makes a lot of sense and I&#8217;m looking forward to it.<\/p>\n<p>Tags:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/ie7\" rel=\"tag\">ie7<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/microsoft\" rel=\"tag\">microsoft<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/rss\" rel=\"tag\">rss<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft&#8217;s updated browser is released next week, and will be distributed via automatic update from November 1st. It is three years late. Here&#8217;s the release history: Version 1.0 August 1995 Version 2.0 November 1995 Version 3.0 August 1996 Version 4.0 September 1997 Version 5.0 March 1999 Version 6.0 August 2001 On a (reasonable) two year &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/9622-ie7-to-be-released-18th-october-three-years-late.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">IE7 to be released 18th October, three years late<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,96,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-web-authoring","category-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}