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IE 7 release announcement from Microsoft
In November Microsoft will release IE to the public. Microsoft has announced that IE7 will be released as a critical update in the November Tuesday Patch release. What this means to you and your organization is that on November 14th or shortly thereafter you'll be running a new browser as your default IE instance. I would highly recommend that you take advantage of the release of IE7 to download onto a machine within your organization and test all of your web applications and programs to be sure that they will continue to operate after November 14th. You can also download a tool that will let you opt out of the IE7 updates if you find problems - and you should contact your web application vendor if the update breaks important websites or applications. Similarly you should check your own website - will it operate properly under IE7? Does anything render differently or are there visual differences. If so you may want to contract with your developer now to test and fix these problems before IE7 becomes widespread.

New browsers happen all the time - but this is more than just a new browser release as - if you do nothing - you will get the updated version automatically.
  
IE 7 support policies
I'd like to cover OS-Cubed's policy on IE7 updates, so everyone is prepared. In general, upgrading to IE7 on your client workstations is a chargeable support incident. Only Admin level users will be able to do the install - whether downloaded or through automatic updates. Manually installing IE 7, uninstalling IE7 after a problem, rolling back to IE6 - all of these are chargeable events. We anticipate that at least some users will have problems with this install. We've prepared our staff by training up on the new browser - and have discovered that it breaks a variety of features on websites. If this happens to be an important site to you there may be some action that you need to take to get access to the site, or there may be action that the web developer will need to take. We'll do our best to help you get up and running, and to support you - but remember that this browser came out just 1 week ago so we're still coming up to speed on the version as it was finally released ourselves. If a problem requires research to investigate and solve - that research time is billable and we'll do our best to be sure you're informed ahead of time about costs prior to accruing them. For websites we know for a fact that IE7 breaks the admin portion of DNN3.x so that wysiwyg editing doesn't work properly. Upgrading to Version 4.x of DNN fixes this problem and we've already sent our DNN clients quotes on doing this upgrade. We have found a number of other sites that do not work properly with IE7, so you too may find some things that break in your site. An update to make your site (either client side or admin side) IE 7 compliant is not included in your regular hosting charges. Any development to either take advantage of IE7 features, or cause the site to be IE7 compliant in any way would be a billable support incident. We have no control, nor did we have any foreknowledge of what MS would release in the final version of IE7. It may well break particular features of particular sites. We are also not testing every site we host with IE7. We recommend that you test your own site yourself - if you don't have time or technical expertise to do so we do offer custom testing services where we will exercise your site as both an every day and an admin user to determine if it works properly with IE7. Call our sales department for a quote on IE7 testing. You should also test any sites that you're currently using as part of your business process (vendor sites, b2b sites, salesforce.com, bluetie, etc.) to be sure that they're compatible before updating everyone in your office to IE7.
  
IE7 Tips and Tricks
Opening popups in a new tab instead of a new instance

You can set IE7 to open documents in a new tab, rather than a new window:

Tools/Internet Options/General/Tab Settings:

Check the following:  

  • Warn when closing multiple tabs
  • Always switch to new tabs when created
  • Enable quicktabs
  • Open new tabs next to current tab
  • When a popup is encountered: always open popups in a new tab
  • Open links from other porgrams in: a new tab in the current window  
  • Everything else unchecked/unselected.
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Zooming in and out
In the lower right corner of your IE7 screen there is a new ZOOM tool which allows you to zoom in or out on a webpage.  This is especially useful when the website is formatted to display larger than the window size you've set.  Ctrl+ and Ctrl- will also zoom in an out quickly.  This can also be handy for those of us with BiGoggles to see when there is teeny tiny text or text with bad contrast on a web page. read more ...

What are IE7's QuickTabs

IE7 has a new feature called "Quick Tabs" which can be invoked with Ctrl-Q or by clicking the four squares to the left of the "Tab list".  If you don't see quicktabs you can turn it on in the options screen.

Quicktabs allows you to view a thumbnail of all the tabs you've opened, then click on one to go to it - very useful if you've been opening tabs all day and can't remember the titles (or they don't all fit on the tab screen).

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Anti-Phishing option
IE7 can automatically check to see if a website is a reported phishing site.  We've had some clients report that turning this on as an automatic function significantly slows down their browsing experience since each site must be checked against Microsoft's "Phishing sites" database as you browse to it.  You'll have to judge for yourself.  My advice would be to leave it turned off for automatic scanning, but anytime you click on a link from an email - do a manual check on the resulting webpage to see if it's a phishing site - even if the link appears legit.  The phishing icon is in the third pane from the right hand side of the screen on the bottom. read more ...

Printing vastly improved

If you're used to IE6's printing function you're used to websites almost always having their right edge cut off when you print - especially if the web page is large.  IE7 has a vastly improved printing engine that ensures that your printout fits on a page of text.

Try it out on your favorite website and see.

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IE7 Announcements
Older versions of Quickbooks not compatible with IE7 - Tuesday, November 14, 2006
Versions 2005 and older of Quickbooks are not compatible with IE7.  See our viruswarn post for more details... read more ...
IE7 released through high priority updates - Thursday, November 02, 2006

As of November 1st Microsoft released Internet Explorer 7 to production as a high priorty update.  Anyone with automatic updates turned on, and anyone who runs windows update manually will be offered the opportunity to install IE7.

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IE 7 toolkit helps you tune the look and feel.... - Thursday, October 26, 2006
A PC World Blog on the IE7 Toolkit points to some ways of "tweaking" the interface: PC World Blog

 
IE7 Not compatible with Windows 2000 - Wednesday, October 25, 2006
Windows 2000 users will not be able to download and install IE7. IE7 Requires Windows XP SP2 as a minimum installation base. 
IE 7 released to public - Monday, October 23, 2006
Internet Explorer (IE) version 7 has been released to the public. Click the more link for additional info on this important release. read more ...
  
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