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Thanks for a Great 2006!

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On behalf of the IE team, I want to thank you all for a super 2006! This was a busy year for us culminating in the release of IE7 and Windows Vista. The IE Blog has been a busy place too; we made 184 posts and received 11,729 comments so far this year! We really appreciate your help in making IE7 better and the blog a rich and interesting community. We look forward to a fun and productive 2007 with you.

Happy Holidays!

Tony Chor
Group Program Manager

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  • Anonymous
    December 21, 2006
    You guys did a goo job. Say, when can we talk abot IE 8? (Just teasing. Maybe ...) :)

  • Anonymous
    December 21, 2006
    I have been enjoying webbing like it's 1999! It has been super busy here too, making up for deficiencies in those blasted alternative browsers. Life was much easier with just IE. Oh well, we can hope for a better 2007 with IE7 dominance!

  • Anonymous
    December 21, 2006
    The best to each of you as well.  Thanks to the team for all the hard work that went into providing a more secure browser.   Now if you could come up with an "anti-click" mechanism that would activate when a user ignores all other warnings and still attempts to download an infected file . . . Regards, Corrine MVP Windows Security

  • Anonymous
    December 21, 2006
    Hi guys! Congratulations with this busy year with the release of IE 7. Now, time to move on to IE 8 :) I have a suggestion too: make a seperate website where you gather suggestions, and try to implement the most requested features. Happy holidays and a happy 2007! Alex

  • Anonymous
    December 21, 2006
    Is microsofts' "Browser Shield" ever going to see the "light of day" ?? From what I saw about it on the microsft website if it were included with IE7 no other browser would ever be used !

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    December 21, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    December 21, 2006
    Guys, Have a great Christmas and a grand start to the new year. Christmas may be 3 days away, but it felt like Christmas when IE7, WMP11 and Windows Defender were all released within a week! Now, on to the real Christmas.

  • Anonymous
    December 21, 2006
    Hello everyone, Greating of the IE7 French Support from Netherlands. It's a pleasure to work for IE7, and Microsoft of course. Merry Christmas to all and long life to IE7 ;)

  • Anonymous
    December 21, 2006
    Happy holidays and a happy new year 2007! Greetings from Vienna, Austria! Viktor

  • Anonymous
    December 21, 2006
    Happy Holidays to you too, Tony and to IE Team. Thanks for IE7 ;-)

  • Anonymous
    December 21, 2006
    But IE Developer Toolbar has not been updated...

  • Anonymous
    December 21, 2006
     When are you going to make it so we can move the refresh button?  Seems to be a lot of patting yourself on the back for a product a lot of users complain about.

  • Anonymous
    December 22, 2006
    Well done on your work this year. Any stats (% usage) available yet on takeup of IE7?

  • Anonymous
    December 22, 2006
    Thank for your hard work and your blog. I really enjoy the new IE7. Now if we could just get adjustable/movable tabs built into the next OS. I love that feature, thanks for that one.

  • Anonymous
    December 22, 2006
    I have logged this issue in microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general but no response. SearchURL that uses file: scheme is not working in ie7 I have several searchURL keys defined under HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftInternet ExplorerSearchUrl Any keyword that uses the file:/// is not recognized in the Address bar and it is performing the default google search. This is not happening with http url. This was working fine in ie6. E.g. for file URL is mysearch=file:///C:/test/ps/portal_load_dev.html%s instead of running the file:/// when i type mysearch 1 in the address bar it tries to run http://mysearch%201/

  • Anonymous
    December 22, 2006

So, next year (2007) is when the public bug tracking site will be up? We'd like to hear some details on when this is coming back online (either as it was, or (preferred) in a new incarnation). As it stands right now, we have no feedback on the progress of all the bugs we submitted, and no information on target releases, or even if a bug has been evaluated, is being worked on, or is being dumped in the "By Design" bin of horrors. I've come across a pile of new bugs, and well, ever since IE7 final, we have nowhere to submit/track/test them. PS my most recent favorite, is that "copied" CSS styles (cssText), are not parsed the same as the original.   If your original, has prop:value;_prop:value; the copied style, will use _prop, even though the original is smart enough to use prop.  Which is real annoying, because the _prop was only used to deal with the horrible CSS support in IE6... which is fixed to a degree in IE7, except... if you want to copy styles...

  • Anonymous
    December 22, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    December 22, 2006
    @steve_web, My suggestions: IE Tab (Firefox Add-on): https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1419/ :) Merry Christmas

  • Anonymous
    December 22, 2006
    @ Tony & the rest of the IE Team: Happy Holidays and New Year! I would echo Alex & steve_web. I too would very much like to see your new year's resolution to restore the connect feedback site (or something similar). I need somewhere to authoritatively report the fact that PNGs with any kind of transparency gets printed as a 2 bit image. Sending emails directly to random IE developer is not okay. ;)

  • Anonymous
    December 22, 2006
    Hi, I appreciate your guys good work in 2006. I downloaded the VPC image for IE6 the other day. My host machine is connecting to network through wireless connection(Belkin 802.11 g card). How can I turn on the wireless connection on IE6 VPC? Thank you very much Ying

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    December 22, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    December 22, 2006
    Thank your very much as well. You took well care of your old horse (IE). I hope we'll se many more improvements in IE 8.0 (or is it still called "Next"? ;)). Hope we get some interesting news about that very soon! By the way, I've noticed Chris Wilson hasn't updated his blog for over a month now. Is he alright? I wish you a merry christmas and a very happy new year :)

  • Anonymous
    December 23, 2006
    THANK YOU SO MUCH* I am glad to be part of your team, You guys did an awesome job. !!! Merry Christmas and a prosper Ner Year !!! all the best.

  • Anonymous
    December 23, 2006
    After we installed IE7, several users began to report sporatic loss of responsiveness, slowness, delays, characters they typed showing up on the screen after several seconds of delay, clicking on links and icons producing no results.  These symptoms affected other applications--not just IE7.  After a few weeks of struggling to find the culprit, it finally happened to me.  I popped up task manager and found CTFMON.EXE using 99% of CPU.  Disabling this process seems to have solved all of these issues.  See KB 282599 for further info. Keywords:  hang hangs slow slowness hesitation loss of focus delay delays  

  • Anonymous
    December 23, 2006
    Yeah whatever man, I still think IE7 stinks, it´s hardly an improvement and no exciting new features like instant-back, Fit to Width, no option to put tabs on bottom. Thanks for nothing!

  • Anonymous
    December 23, 2006
    Thanks and congratulations for a great year. Can’t wait till IE8.

  • Anonymous
    December 23, 2006
    I don't see any difference between IE6 and IE7.  IE7 keeps crashing all the time when I try to watch ANY yahoo or CNN video files.  First you watch 30 sec commercial and then IE crashes.  I guess according to MS standards it is "by design".  It is really sad that for so many years MS can't make the product stable enough.  Can't wait to see IE7 service pack 1 then service pack 2, patches, more patches and then IE 8.0 with the same end result.  Oh, forgot to mention the IE7 UI is just horrible, I guess all the great usability experts are working somewhere else now.

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    December 23, 2006
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    December 24, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    December 24, 2006
    Happy Christmas, and congratulations on a very productive year!

  • Anonymous
    December 24, 2006
    I think 7 stinks it keeps crashing no refresh button no Outlook express button. If I could find my back to 6 I would so. I don't have a CD for 6 or I would uninstall 7 and revert to 6 a lot less trouble!!

  • Anonymous
    December 24, 2006
    Don't pat yourself on the back yet...!  I've downloaded the IE7 package at Microsoft's recommendation and now IE will open the initial window but then freezes with nothing inside the window.  I need to power off and on to get the system back.  I then start IE7 with add-ons disabled and it seems to come up OK... How do I fix this...? If this isn't the place to ask the question, please pass this on to the proper source... Regards... George Garrett Huntington Beach, CA  

  • Anonymous
    December 25, 2006
    @Carl: If you use the Control Panel to Remove IE7, IE6 is automatically restored.  However, you can restore the mail button and prevent the hangs by following the steps at http://enhanceie.com/ie/troubleshoot.asp @George: Your best bet is to disable all of your toolbars and browser extensions and re-enable them one-by-one until you find the culprit.  Then, check with the manufacturer of the buggy plugin for a new version.

  • Anonymous
    December 25, 2006
    i think ie7 is better than ie6! thanks so much for you works!

  • Anonymous
    December 26, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    December 26, 2006
    I think it would be nice if you'll implement another favorites button into the command bar, which behaves like "Favorites" on the menubar. Besides, I want to hide the default two bookmark icons. Thanks!

  • Anonymous
    December 27, 2006
    I find it ironic that many people here are rah-rah about IE7 and immediatly ask about IE8. What does IE7 not handle your current requirements? It's a brand new product!! Why should user's already be asking for a new version? This reflects poorly on the product. I have not personally used IE7, I, as a rule, don't use a MS product until the first SP has come out, it saves many headaches. @Thomas: regarding your question on Stats. As of Dec 27, 2006 the World Wide Web Consortium has published results through November. IE7   7.1% IE6   49.9% IE5   2.9% FireFox   29.9% http://w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp --doc0tis

  • Anonymous
    December 27, 2006
    > What does IE7 not handle your current requirements? A lot of HTML (q, longdesc, anyone?), CSS (Level 1: inherit-keyword, Level 2: generated content) and JavaScript (getElementById() recognizes the name-Attribut [and thats from me who's rarely using JS]). And theres much more. > As of Dec 27, 2006 the World Wide Web Consortium has published results through November. That's not the W3C. The only official website of the W3C is http://www.w3.org/ W3Schools is just kind of a Fansite. but it's nice to see the 4 percentage point jumt of IE7 :) @ others Why are we talking about that anyway? The Blog topic is "Thanks for a Great 2006!". Can't you just be nice and accept that the developers did a good job even when there's much left to do?

  • Anonymous
    December 27, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    December 27, 2006
    Happy new year guys! But... You should be aware that IE7 is far behind Mozilla 2.0. Take a good holiday break, get back and make this "nice try" browser work properly. I love doing things in IE but with this version I'm forced to use Firefox all the time because IE tabbing is such a bad joke. What's wrong guys? You can't do a tabbed browsed to work smooth as Firefox used to, by some time? Come on! Kind regards!

  • Anonymous
    December 27, 2006
    Despite all troubles, Internet Explorer is the most popular browser in the world, and will stay the same for years. It is the only reality that infuriates Firefox's fans, so they become pathetic aggressive.

  • Anonymous
    December 28, 2006
    i think ie6 is better than ie7 thanks so much for you works! Defective product！

  • Anonymous
    December 28, 2006
    So, there seems to have been almost no testing of Active Document Servers under IE7, cause we have found like 6+ bugs already related to using Active Document Servers.  But even lamer, the WinInet Send/Receive timeouts were set to 30seconds in IE7.  Anytime anyone makes a general purpose network timeout < 2 minutes they have made a major mistake.  Our product can work around this by resetting the timeout, and you can do registry settings, but that is so wrong.

  • Anonymous
    December 28, 2006
    well done folks - hard work i bet but the results are great !!!

  • Anonymous
    December 28, 2006
    @ Akira: I can completely understand you. However I have to see it from another point of view as well. There have also been improovements to the rendering mechanism, although it's compareable to the UI improvements. This isn't satisfying, however it's the best they could do the last 1 1/2 years I think. Repsect is needed. Anger as well, but not at the time of christmas. > You should be aware that IE7 is far behind Mozilla 2.0. You mean Firefox 2? Guess what, they are aware of that. It's been stated many times in this blog. Hovever working in IE is a real pain, because of so many factors, most important backward compatibility. They wont start a new Rendering Engine because of this. They also won't start a entierly new Browser (where backward compatibility wouldn't be neccesary). But at least they're trying, there's always hope. > It is the only reality that infuriates Firefox's fans, so they become pathetic aggressive. Well, -real- Firefox fans know that Mozilla only wants about 10% market share to show presence. A ray of hope for webstandards at least for me (not to forget Opera and alle the *nix Browsers). I'm not angry at MS because they got thi highest marketing share. I'm somewhat angry they didn't update their Browser rendering in 3 years.

  • Anonymous
    December 28, 2006
    Can you fix windows update.  If I say I don't want to update to IE7, please don't keep asking me every couple of weeks. For me, it's a browser with a broken GUI.  No sites require IE7 and thankfully only a steadily diminishing handful still require IE6 these days.  

  • Anonymous
    December 28, 2006
    >Anger as well, but not at the time of christmas. Ahh yes, you're right. A happy new year every guys and girls.

  • Anonymous
    December 28, 2006
    I love IE7 ! Thanks MS you guys rock

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    December 31, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    December 31, 2006
    Guys I have just upgraded to IE7 and have been looking at Helena Cobban's blog Just World News  http://justworldnews.org/ Partway down the page the content is blanked out Just level with JWN golden oldies. It doesnt happen in IE6 or in Firefox so we supect it is a feature of IE7.  It would be awfully nice if you would remove it and automatically update my IE7. Another user repoirts the same problem and she is migrating to Firefox.

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  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2007
    When is SP1 coming out for IE7?  I don't want to download IE7 until all these problems are be fixed!  janvier? february? carlos

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  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2007
    IE team, I congratulate you on your excellent browser. You kept me on the edge of my seat this year waiting for IE7 to release, and never failed to provide great features. I look forward to seeing what you will produce in 2007!

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2007
    I Love IE 7 and am finally glad to see THIS tabbed browser out!  Is there anything like

  1. Foxmarks (both for Favorites AND Feed Syncing)
  2. ForecastFox
  3. and DownThemAll out there for IE7? Free? I absolutely REFUSE to pay for something I can presently presently use for free. Also, a VideoDownloader clone? Thanks Jim

  • Anonymous
    January 02, 2007
    I love IE7 + thanks everyone at Microsoft.  The only thing I can think to add is a way to refresh all tabs at the same time. This would be nice.

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  • Anonymous
    January 02, 2007
    "I'd give you the BUG ID# to track this bug in Feedback" What bug? You just described a fully functional feature and you want to submit a bug for it? You're just reaching now. (Considering you ignored my comments, indicating you must not have a proper answer)

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  • Anonymous
    January 02, 2007
    "I assume you mean FireFox 2.0 (as Mozilla is not a product). FireFox also has to catch up on certain things still. I shouldn't have 200 MB of memory for 2 sites open after a day of use." Agreed. I find Firefox and its memory leaks most annoying. I tend to open a lot of tabs (between 10 and 15) at a time, which IE7 has no problem doing.  Doing it in Firefox 2.0 after a while of use causes some very annoying memory related issues (such as no longer being able to select an unselected tab, or the browser context menu not appearing). These can only be solved by restarting the browser - very irritating.

  • Anonymous
    January 02, 2007
    After upgrading to IE7 i see the browser page is changed to runonce.msn.com and the browser will not revert back to the old homepage until users clicked 'save setting' button. I see many novice users confused by this and they keep the runonce.msn.com for ever. I will suggest after certain days (say 5 days) IE7 should automatically revert back to the old homepage. BTB, happy new year to the entire IE7 team and congrats for a project well done.

  • Anonymous
    January 02, 2007
    Has Microsoft ever actually built an XHTML / CSS2 layout controlled website / application and tested it with IE7? Us web developers are trying to build advanced web based applications and move the web forward - using in many cases your brilliant .NET framework - however your browser cannot support what we are trying to do with it. You minimize the toolbar to maximize screen space, but then you leave div tables out of your standards support.... how are we supposed to correctly utilize the space as we want as we would in firefox (static toolbar on side, adaptable width main body) - without sacrificing flexibility (ie. using table controlled layout). Don't think "use client side scripting uuuuuhhh" either - that is just wrong. You say you listened to web developers - which ones? People using FrontPage or something!? - how come nearly everything I can 100% count on with FireFox does not work properly in IE7? Ooh  but you have tabs now... wow.... I have posted and watched many of your official blog sites, but for some reason you ignored all the really important cries for help :) The only real thing you have given us whatever:hover is pretty much used for cosmetic user interface feedback purposes. Is the money this entire planet gives you not enough to spend a week or so improving standards support? Lets hope with your 2007 you are planning on releasing a compulsory service pack for IE7 that brings it up to speed with some of the other browsers out there. We are ALL... REALLY... REALLY sick of your browser making our lives hard. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE fix it.

  • Anonymous
    January 02, 2007
    @Paul, "how come nearly everything I can 100% count on with FireFox does not work properly in IE7?" Firefox never has had the pressure to be as secure as IE, nor will it ever. So until Firefox has the world's most brilliant hackers pitted against it, or until you are responsible for securing a browser with over 70% market share, please refrain from talking about something you know little about. "not enough to spend a week or so improving standards support" Do you honestly think security comes from a week of programming? Open-source programmers do 'quick fixes' in a week - that's why it takes a full year to release version 0.0.1 for most open-source projects. When something's done professionaly, it takes time. This comes from a programmer who does more than web design.

  • Anonymous
    January 02, 2007
    @Wraith Daquell Mind your splatter. I have been developing enterprise level network based client server applications for over 15 years - not to mention desktop apps - C / C++ / Java / .NET / Oracle / SQL Server / mySQL db's the list goes on. Credit card transaction merchant server software, writing software to hook into real banking systems. Applications requiring the tightest security requirements - and yes - data that every hacker would love to get their hands on. You think I sit around in Photoshop all day or something? You think I write 3 page websites for corner stores? Wake up - server-side centric web apps. are the most efficient way of writing globally accessible applications to a wide range of clients. This is why I am concerned as to standards implementations. Oh yes - and by the way - what have they taken with IE7? Would that be... oh yes... it was time. Re-skinning their "professionally written" IE6 engine with a few improvements. In fact - why do they need time going by your reasoning - it was already professionally written and secure. You have no clue - i'd get that M$ tattoo removed and wake up to reality.

  • Anonymous
    January 02, 2007
    @ Paul Microsoft's channel 10. Check it out... it's a step in the right direction. http://on10.net/ If your interest is somewhat piqued, check out this video about channel 10 on channel 9: http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=171265 "Is the money this entire planet gives you not enough to spend a week or so improving standards support?" Wraith Daquell's reply is was informative and lacked personal attacks. As a vetran, you know full well that the trident engine (which is fairly aged and complex) took eons more than that to fix the host of layout fixes in IE7 with the current set of resources they have. As to the web developer's they listened to, that'd be the foremost people on the industry actively providing workaround documentation for IE 6's specific flaws including reproductions. I'm sure they hated 'having to put their pencils down'. From what I can tell from the chats, videos, and blog posts ... they give it their all ... and deserve a Happy new year!

  • Anonymous
    January 03, 2007
    I'm only an amateur web developer but I can tell that I can easily write code that looks pixel-exact on both Firefox and IE7. For IE6 and Firefox - only after a hour of hacking or so. So yea, IE7 IS much improved. And considering that they had to fix 5+ years of bugs (security and otherwise), and STILL managed to come up with a ton of new features and improved rendering, while also maintaining backwards compatibility, I can say that the IE team did a fairly good job. Sure, it has some bugs, but which browser doesnt. The Firefox 1.0 builds were total disasters with a lot of rendering bugs too. But over time, FF improved. IE is now under developement again, so it will be improved the same way (hopefully).

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  • Anonymous
    January 03, 2007
    I love IE7!  Is there a place to post ideas/requests for features?  For example, I think you should be able to right-click the back button and open the previous page in a new tab.

  • Anonymous
    January 03, 2007
    @Ensign Joe Just FYI, there are more browsers than IE and FF, for some people, Opera is the very star on the browser-sky, try it. Won't hurt you, would it?

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