Internet Explorer 7 – Features

Rumors have it that the Windows Vista Beta 1 build will be released to testers tomorrow, according to Winbeta. However, Microsoft made it clear on the official website of Windows Vista that Windows Vista Beta 1 will be in the hands of the developers and IT Professionals by August 3rd, 2005 (This seems to be a MSDN release date).We can expect some new features which will be included with the pre-release, Beta build of Internet Explorer 7. However, there is one distinguishing feature:

Phishing Filter

An interesting and fresh feature in Internet Explorer 7 (Beta). “Phishing” has become one of the top problems in our internet lives, just like viruses, trojans and most of all spyware. We, users, mainly find “Phishing” in our emails, where spammers take advantage in acquiring our personal details and login details of popular websites. Microsoft made it a priority to help solve this problem by including this element in IE 7 (Beta). The filter will then ask the user whether they would like to have the “Phishing Filter” automatically turned on to check all future websites.

By the looks of it Microsoft will be creating a database with a list of websites that are potentially “Phishing Oriented”.

Other features:

1. Tab-Browsing
2. RSS-Reader/Aggregator
3. New user interface
4. Integrated Search field

More and more features will be released soon.

Source page: XPSource