Changing to IE 7

[Guest]

I am using IE6 now with XP & Outlook 2002. Is there any major advantage to
installing IE 7 Beta 3 or problems?

 

[Don Varnau]

Hi,
Serious problems with IE7 have been rare, but it's still in beta testing.
There's *always* the possibility (however slim) that you would have to
reformat and reinstall Windows. I wouldn't recommend installing beta
software on a machine which contained important data.

Hope this helps,
Don
[MS MVP- IE]

 

[antioch]

I am using IE6 now with XP & Outlook 2002. Is there any major advantage to
installing IE 7 Beta 3 or problems?

Hello MPA
Why not read for yourself.
It is suggested here;
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/ie7/default.mspx

That you go here for newsgroups
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general

And here for web(if you dare)
http://www.microsoft.com/communitie...?dg=microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general

Should be enough info for you to make an informed decision - hope you make
the right choice ;-)
Rgds
Antioch

 

[Guest]

Hi. I just upgraded to IE Beta 7 Beta 3. What I have found as a
disadvantage is a lot of websites do not load coorectly or look right. Also
some sites that use SSL security do not show up as secure even though they
are. What I did was download Mozilla Fifefox browser to use if I couldn't
see a site properly or gain a secure connection. As far as major advantages
I don't think there are really any except perhaps the adiition of a phising
filter. hope this is helpful.
Kaja

 

[antioch]

I hope you will let them all know about your find in the IE7 beta group -
you are posting in IE6!!!!
Antioch

 

[BrianW]

I am using IE6 now with XP & Outlook 2002. Is there any major advantage to
installing IE 7 Beta 3 or problems?

Well I tried that...

Desktop shortcuts randomly caused IE to part load then hang. When
manually killed, I was told that "There was a problem sending the
command to the program". Microsoft didn't want to know.

Other times it would suddenly announce that it had encountered a problem
and had to close - although if you ignored this, it would keep on working.

So I tried to revert to the previous restore point. XP wouldn't let me.

I now use Firefox and Thunderbird.

Brian

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE]

I am using IE6 now with XP & Outlook 2002. Is there any major advantage to
installing IE 7 Beta 3 or problems?

betas exist to find and report bugs.
one installs a beta to find and report bugs.

Bugs
Exist
Try
Another

 

[BrianW]

betas exist to find and report bugs.
one installs a beta to find and report bugs.

Bugs
Exist
Try
Another

That's the point. I reported the bug and they blamed my toolbars. When I
removed all of the toolbars, it still did the same thing!

Brian

 

[BrianW]

I hope you will let them all know about your find in the IE7 beta group -
you are posting in IE6!!!!
Antioch

I can't see an IE7 beta newsgroup on my usenet server.

Brian

 

[Jon Kennedy]

Beta testers of IE7 Public Preview are asked to post their comments to
microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general newsgroup.

On the web:
http://www.microsoft.com/communitie...?dg=microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general

In your newsreader:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general

 

[antioch]

He has already had those links - appears to have ignored them!!!!!
Antioch

 

[BrianW]

He has already had those links - appears to have ignored them!!!!!
Antioch

All I can say is that I found it hard enough to register as a beta
tester, and even harder to report the problem. Their reply was "we can't
reproduce this - it's probably caused by a toolbar", whereupon they
closed the issue. No doubt there were also links that I overlooked, but
surely if they want people to help with beta testing, they should make
it a simple, straightforward process, not expect you to jump through
several hoops just to get started.

I wasn't aware of that newsgroup. I have now subscribed to it, and will
post the problems there to see if anybody else has encountered them.
Thank you for the info.

Brian

 

[antioch]

All I can say is that I found it hard enough to register as a beta tester,
and even harder to report the problem. Their reply was "we can't reproduce
this - it's probably caused by a toolbar", whereupon they closed the
issue. No doubt there were also links that I overlooked, but surely if
they want people to help with beta testing, they should make it a simple,
straightforward process, not expect you to jump through several hoops just
to get started.

I think it typical of MS - this is the way they seem to treat those prepared
to test their software for them.

I wasn't aware of that newsgroup. I have now subscribed to it, and will
post the problems there to see if anybody else has encountered them. Thank
you for the info.
Brian

Good luck now you have found the newsgroup
Antioch