IE 7 Beta 2 Offer Enhanced Security and RSS Features February 2, 2006
InternetNews.com reports that Microsoft has released a public beta of IE 7 called IE 7 Beta 2 Preview. It includes security features like a phishing filter and anti-spoofing protection. Other features include tabbed browsing and new RSS capabilities.
Microsoft's implementation of tabbed browsing in IE 7 includes something called Tab Groups which enables user to collect their tabs into a group and open a group with one click. A native toolbar search box is also part of the new browser.
Perhaps most notably though is IE 7's new RSS (define)features.
"RSS is probably the biggest area of innovation in IE 7," Schare said. "We've done work both on the end user to expose the average user to RSS in a really great way and we've done a lot of work on the platform to enable RSS for any application to take advantage of."
Schare explained that the RSS capabilities allow users to subscribe to feeds within the browser and once subscribed that data is available to any application, whether it's an RSS reader or any other business or consumer application that might want to use the data.
It's all part of how IE 7 and eventually Vista will fully integrate RSS into the system.
More information about the beta can be found on Microsoft's IE Blog.
