In his Keynote Address at RSA Conference 2005, Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates announced Internet Explorer 7 -- for Windows XP, too!
Reversing its plans not to release a new version of Internet Explorer independent from Windows, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates now says IE 7.0 will debut before Longhorn. At the RSA Conference in San Francisco, Gates acknowledged that IE had become a security risk and promised a beta of IE7 will be available this summer for Windows XP SP2.
The update will include new anti-spyware features, and likely draw on Microsoft's recent acquisitions of security companies GIANT and Sybari. Microsoft executives had previously held firm that Longhorn -- due in 2006 -- would bring the next major changes to Internet Explorer.
In the past few months, however, Redmond has faced increased security threats and an eroding market share following the launch of Mozilla Firefox.
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