Review the various versions of Internet Explorer browser (3)

Internet Explorer 7.0 version

Internet Explorer 7.0 Beta 1 on Windows Vista Beta 1 on February 15, 2005, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gay In the RSA seminar in San Francisco, it was announced that a new version of the browser will be released. The reason for the launch of the new browser is that the market valuation of Internet Explorer is gradually being eroded by Mozilla Firefox. In addition, Microsoft announced that version 7.0 is only available for Windows XP SP2 and later operating systems, including Windows Server 2003 SP1 and Windows Vista. The first preview version of Internet Explorer was launched on July 27, 2005, mainly for technical testing. The first test version to the public was launched on January 31, 2006, and the version is Beta 2 preview. The final public beta version was released on October 18, 2006. Version 7.0 is expected to protect users from phishing attacks and other malware. Users have complete control over ActiveX and a better security architecture, including separation from Windows systems, and are not as tightly integrated as ever to improve security. In addition, the new version includes retrieving errors in some programs, enhancing support for Internet standards, enhancing support for HTML 4.01/CSS 2, adding new page views, and a search box that supports search engines, a Web-feed view. , support for internationalized domain names, and anti-phishing attack filters. It can even block some program types, such as Flas***** and Java.

On February 12, 2008, Microsoft will force all Windows browsers to be upgraded to version 7.0 via Windows Server Update Services for "security reasons."

Internet Explorer 8.0 version

Beijing time on March 6, 2008, Microsoft released the first public beta version of Internet Exolorer 8 (beta1). This test included the first version of Simplified Chinese (launched on March 27). The beta version is still improved under the IE7 architecture. In addition to making some minor adjustments and adding a few useful features, the interface has not improved. The beta1 version introduces the model of simulating IE7, adds online mail browsing, improves compatibility, and further enhances anti-phishing functions. It can filter web addresses. Beijing time on August 28th news, according to foreign media reports, Microsoft released a full-featured upgraded version of IE8 Beta 2 on Wednesday. According to Microsoft, the new feature of IE8 Beta 2 is to enhance privacy protection and improve comfort and security. Microsoft released IE8 Beta 1 in March, but the goal is to show the latest version of IE to web developers, and Beta 2 is designed to show more users. Microsoft did not disclose when it will officially launch IE8, nor did it predict how many users will download Beta 2.