Was hanging around at Novell's new desktop news site...when they said...Novell will have the edge over Windows Vista by about 6 months..so I went straight to Windows Vista page...I have been having a keen interest on Vista...coz...I alpha tested Vista way back in 2003, when it was doing the rounds....
this time around, the website does look impressive..as always and like any other microsoft page....Got interested in IE 7 beta....Signed up for that...knowing well the alluring danger in Microsoft Beta products...(I had a tough time with Windows Media Player 10, in 2004-2005), the temptation was too much...to resist...
downloaded IE 7 Beta 2,
Installed it...
Took 5 minutes....restarted Windows....
Opened IE....surprised to see IE looking refreshing....with TABS...and the toolbars have been given a face-lift...
A search toolbar akin Firefox, Opera...Finally IE has succumbed to the needs and has followed suit with most of the features that the competitors provide....
Does not look like such a memory hog...except for some javascript pages...the memory usage was pretty ok.....thats until now...only over course it will mature...
Have already suggested three enhancements to the IE mailing list..:-)
Without any outstanding improvements to boast about, IE as standalone will not succeed...but when given with Vista..will sail in as a successful browser...looking to match the advances Microsoft has made to the OS as whole...a significant forward movement from Windows XP...one would say..!!!
More comments after a couple of weeks..when it will be stress-tested...:-))
-Rajesh
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