IE 7 Review

Ok, I'm using IE 7 (Beta) to post this blog. I think because of the way I'm running it (not really INSTALLED, it just glorifies up IE6 a little.) I went to Help and About and it still says IE 6.0.2900. :-) Cool new logo and Tabs. That's about it. All the same menu items and stuff (since still basically IE6). Oh yeah, and built in RSS feeds, but the automatic feed detection didn't even work at http://dilbertblog.typepad.com.

I really do like the tabs, though. Of course, you can download the MSN Desktop Search application to get tabs with IE6, so no big deal (see previous post). It's beta, I'm sure they'll have it all figured out by the time it releases.

As you know, it's only for MSDN subscribers, but you can get around it. Download it here: http://www.turboupload.com/d/13780/IE7-WindowsXP-x86-enu.exe.html

Extract the EXE with WinRAR. Then extract THAT exe with WinRAR. Delete the shlwapi.dll file, create a blank text file called IEXPLORE.exe.local, and you can't actually install it (it tries to validate with Microsoft), you have to just run the iexplore.exe file.

Have fun tabbing...