The new and glamorous IE7 (beta 2) has been installed on my laptop successfully! I've heard a lot about it, but because it is a beta I thought that I didn't want to run into trouble. But, today I found lots of reviews of other peers who have already installed it and used for more than 30 days, and no one seems to have any major complains. Well, I said, why shouldn't I try it out?
To begin, you can download it from here. From there, you will prompted to download an installation, which is not that big - approx 11 MBs.
OK, and here are my first impressions. It is obvious that Microsoft is trying to get back into the Internet browsers space. Personally, I am using, IE6 but I am really not very delighted with it. I am "obliged" to use it, because I am used to store links from my local MSDN library, and in order to open them, I actually need IE. And honestly, this is the only reason not to forget about it. During my "free" surfing time (when I am not using MSDN library), I prefer Opera because of so many reasons like:
1. Has tab display
2. Has awesome bookmark features in terms of searching and maintenance.
3. Has the concept of sessions - thus you are able to store a given set of links under a given label, so that you can get back to this "topic" whenever you want.
4. Has integrated support for RSS
5. Has integrated support for NNTP
6. Has integrated mail access
Well, this list seems to be a long one for sure. With IE7, some of these wish-items have been fulfilled. For example, IE7 has tab display and supports RSS natively. It also has integrated search capability, which according to me is very useful. However, I respect the fact that on default they are using Google Search (not MSN Search), which shows that they are trying to follow customers preference (hey, we all know that Google Search is the most used search engine, respect!). Among these, I will say that the new design and outlook of IE is very very sexy, which for me as a user is also important.
However, I would have been far away more satisfied, if IE had had improved its bookmark capabilities. I personally have more than 5000 favorites, and believe me, it is really hard to search and navigate in IE. On the contrary, in Opera they have this very useful search, which digs into all directories of your favorites (not just in the root as it is in IE). But, hopefully, Microsoft will add it in the future - fingers crossed! :)
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