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Microsoft quietly announced this week that it will release Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP as a high priority update via automatic update, the new version of the browser completed.

Disclosure to the Post online blog through last Wednesday. , "To help our customers become more secure and up-to-date, we IE7 and will be distributed as a high-priority update through an automatic upgrade shortly after the final release of Windows XP, and in the fourth quarter of this year, ": Tony Chu, project manager IE7 Group, in the post.

Delays for customers to update IE7, Microsoft also released an administrators tool kit, can be updated through the blockade indefinitely delayed.

IE7, will be the first update to the aging Microsoft browser in five years. 600 was introduced in 2001, and updated two service packs, all the way - the S erviceP ack2 out two years ago. Most of the code dealing with SP2, and better ensuring that is not subject to attack, which is an eye-catching, in addition to the Security Center.

Upcoming version of the theme of security also what Microsoft calls "protected mode", according to statements on Microsofts Web site said: "IE7 in the protected mode, contribute to the elimination of the silent installation of malicious code . . . By blocking wrote outside the Temporary Internet Files folder. . . [] Also help prevent the Windows message is sent to higher privilege process. " Because of its stance, and the commitment made in IE7 is perhaps the best test version of the browser. It began beta testing a year ago. There are two versions of the browser - for every W indowsV ista and XP.

The companys volume in the IE7 Beta 2 and XP in late April, and officials insist that the browser - at least apply to the release of X P-work is on schedule, despite the delay, there are people V 1 2 96 i sta to proceed as scheduled.

"To ensure that customers upgrade, the auto-update will notify users when IE7 is ready to install and show a welcome screen, showing the main features and options installation , # 39 not installed, or ask me later, "Chu.

In IE7 blocker in the toolbox can download here. Download the Beta 2 of IE7 for Windows XP, click here to see.

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