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Don_HH2K
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 22 Mar, 2006 9:56 pm IE7 to be Separated from Windows Explorer |
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Found this on Slashdot a few minutes ago:
| Slashdot wrote: |  Security experts warned Microsoft 10 years ago that putting IE as a component of Windows Explorer was a bad idea, looks like Microsoft finally decided to listen to the advice. According to a short write up in Business Week, Microsoft has decided that when IE7 comes out with Vista it will no longer be a component of Windows Explorer and will be able to replace IE6 even on XP machines. |
The report was delivered by podcast on BusinessWeek.
Though Windows Explorer and Internet Explorer will now be two different applications, there isn't any hinting at being able to uninstall IE7 completely yet. Of course, since IE would no longer be a tightly-integrated "component", the threat is reduced and perhaps even partially contained to IE. Also new is a permissions-based ActiveX system, which will automatically prompt a user for action when an ActiveX control is detected and attempted to be loaded, with a whitelist for trusted-by-Microsoft apps such as Flash and Windows Media Player. Furthermore, ActiveX is now "cut off" from the rest of the system: they aren't allowed to change security settings or a user's personal options, and aren't allowed to permanently save files to a user's hard drive.
IE7 is now including a phishing filter, much like Netscape 8's, which will "display a red bar across the top of the browser window" if a site is on a Microsoft-hosted blacklist. Some detection functionality is also included, displaying a yellow bar.
Some 'features' have also been removed, such as the ability to remove the address bar from an IE window, which is a prime security concern in terms of phishing.
Perhaps this is why Vista is being pushed back to 2007?
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beanboy89
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| 22 Mar, 2006 10:28 pm |
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I've tried a pre-beta 2 build of Windows (they've dropped "Microsoft" in the name) Internet Explorer 7.0 (build 5296) on a Windows XP machine. To put it nicely, I wasn't too impressed. I thought I could create a standalone version and run IE7 alongside IE6 by extracting the files from the IE7 installer into an empty folder, but once I got IE7 running, I found many things to be broken, including my install of IE6. I do blame this on myself, and not Micosoft, for I was tring beta software. I finally resorted to a reformat to clean things up.
Maybe I'll try out IE7 again once it becomes finalized, and I'll use the proper install method. 
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Antony
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| 23 Mar, 2006 1:07 am |
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So, Internet Explorer 7 can be removed from next Windows, but will be included as default?
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Don_HH2K
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| 23 Mar, 2006 5:26 am |
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| Antony wrote: | | So, Internet Explorer 7 can be removed from next Windows, but will be included as default? |
They didn't mention the ability to remove it, but it isn't integrated with the shell anymore. Instead of being a tightly integrated "OS COmponent", IE and Windows Explorer are now two different apps. (Think along the lines of how Safari and Finder are two different apps.)
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