This beta preview version of Internet Explorer 7 is intended for Web developers and other Web professionals. It is not intended to be a functional product for Web surfers. We had difficulty actually removing it and restoring to IE6.
Internet Explorer 7 beta 2 preview is intended to enable developers, web developers and IT pros to begin to test the new browser for compatibility with their applications and Web sites. Internet Explorer 7 beta 2 preview includes advancements in security and browsing experience for end users, functionality and compatibility for developers, and manageability for corporate network administrators.
In a brief demonstration of IE 7 Beta 2 at the inaugural Mix '06 conference, program manager Dean Hachamovitch showed the packed audience at the relatively small auditorium some of the latest build's newly working features, including an auto-detection feature for sites that utilize local search capacity. In a similar vein to sites that the RSS feeds that accompany their Web pages be auto-detected by the latest IE or Firefox, sites that have their own local search can add listings for themselves to IE7's new search bar. This way, a site that specializes in recipes or horticulture or, as Hachamovitch demonstrated, dog grooming, can make their search query lines accessible through IE7's built-in controls.
In addition to its continued inclusion of tabs - which, Firefox has made clear, is a "must have" function even among regular IE users - IE7 will enable tabs to be grouped and saved, like a collective bookmark. A tab grouping can then be used in place of the IE7 home page, so conceivably, a browser could load TG Daily, Tom's Hardware Guide, and MobilityGuru all at startup.
