MS Internet explorer 7 due summer '05

kaimera · 17-02-2005 10:20am #1

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have to say I'm interested. Much as I have firefox1.0 I do use IE along side it.

galactus · 17-02-2005 10:22am

But no IE 7 for Win 2000.

Can't understand that!

Infini · 17-02-2005 10:24am

Well W2K is nearly 5 years old and is at this stage no longer in mainstream use. It's al winXP now.

ozt9vdujny3srf · 17-02-2005 10:25am

Infini wrote:

Well W2K is nearly 5 years old and is at this stage no longer in mainstream use. It's al winXP now.

Win2k not in mainstream use? You must be joking. Its still the OS of choice for any machine that doesnt have 6 billion gigabytes of ram.

exactiv · 17-02-2005 10:30am

2005 Win XP W2000
February 62.0% 21.1%
January 61.3% 21.6%

http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp

XP dominates.

Infini · 17-02-2005 10:31am

Well you have to agree that Microsoft seems to be concentrating all its resources on XP and the new longhorn system so they probably don't consider 2000 to be viable anymore.

ozt9vdujny3srf · 17-02-2005 10:41am

exactiv wrote:

2005 Win XP W2000
February 62.0% 21.1%
January 61.3% 21.6%

http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp

XP dominates.

21% is fairly mainstream, I think the point is that MS should still be supporting it.

exactiv · 17-02-2005 10:42am

Microsoft are doing what any good business would be doing, improving their product and designing new ones.

2000 has been more popular in large organisations in the past because it uses less system resources. But even a lot of these companies/institutions are upgrading to XP, University College Cork being the first that springs to mind.

Uptake of XP increased when 2003 server was released because it supported all of XP's features out of the box.

exactiv · 17-02-2005 10:44am

Tristan Better Log wrote:

21% is fairly mainstream, I think the point is that MS should still be supporting it.

I'm not disagreeing with you. I think MS should continue to support it, and I think they will.

It would be bad business sense if they didn't.

galactus · 17-02-2005 10:49am

I'd imagine it might be attractive for IT managers to stay on 2000 with Firefox rather than, more or less, pay MS for IE 7.

Ste- · 17-02-2005 12:44pm

galactus wrote:

But no IE 7 for Win 2000.

Can't understand that!

He also implies that there may be a Windows 2000 version.

I'd say most likely they will make it available to 200 users aswell, as stated before it would be bad for business if they didn't as a lot of places still rate 2000 better than XP. And use it because of that.

seamus · 17-02-2005 12:53pm

Ste- wrote:

I'd say most likely they will make it available to 200 users aswell, as stated before it would be bad for business if they didn't as a lot of places still rate 2000 better than XP. And use it because of that.

If not, there'll be IE6 SP3 for windows 2000 and IE7 for WinXP, and they'll be almost identical except that the Windows XP one will be more colourful and use up 50% more RAM. Bit like Windows XP itself.

galactus · 17-02-2005 1:27pm

Ste- wrote:

I'd say most likely they will make it available to 200 users aswell, as stated before it would be bad for business if they didn't as a lot of places still rate 2000 better than XP. And use it because of that.

Agreed! Less hassle all round.

Just to clarify:

"...clarifying only that the company has not solidified any plans to provide the updated browser to Windows 2000 customers, and that the release date is still up in the air."

http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2005Feb/gee20050216029180.htm

Also, plans scrapped for W2K SP5
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1732610,00.asp

Reading between the lines, I wouldn't expect to see IE 7 on W2K any time soon

fragile · 17-02-2005 2:45pm

MS will continue to support 2000 but they will not be releasing any more service packs for it, just occasional security fixes via windows update. This means that the security enhancemenst that are in XP SP2 and IE7 will not be back-ported to 2000. I think for MS this is all just too little too late.

Firefox 1.1 should be out by summer '05 as well

Capt'n Midnight · 17-02-2005 7:35pm

IE 7 eh?
If there are any major changes from IE6 then might just wait for the service pack.

BTW: since XP and 2K were bundled with most branded PC's how many users actually CHOOSE thier version of windows based on an informed decision or just took what was on offer ?
There are probably more windows 2000 pc's out there than any non-windows OS . It's not a small market segment, it's just that micosoft have been in the forced obsolesence game so long that they don't care about people who aren't paying them...

ozt9vdujny3srf · 19-02-2005 12:56pm

Correct me if I'm wrong (and i could be very very wrong) but wasnt windows 2000 a business OS and as such wasnt offered as the standard operating system by the likes of DELL.

ME was the home offering at that stage afair. *shudders*

Winters · 19-02-2005 1:05pm

Yes. Windows 2000 was aimed at Business use and was only really bundled with business computers. It would have been WindowsME that was sold with Home computers at the time.

Dempsey · 19-02-2005 1:43pm

Winters wrote:

Yes. Windows 2000 was aimed at Business use and was only really bundled with business computers. It would have been WindowsME that was sold with Home computers at the time.

Ya but dell also offered for about €100 that you could have 2000 Professional instead. But when you looked at the comparison between ME and 2k, anyone who wasnt sure which OS to get would have stuck with ME based on all the great things it could according to dell.

Id say the beta wont support 2k but the final release will

MS Internet explorer 7 due summer '05

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