IE7 Beta 2
Yesterday night I was finally (that’s the problem with not having a MSDN subscription, you have to wait) able to install at home IE7 Beta 2 Preview. If you’re gonna download and try it, two advance warnings: your operating system has to be Windows XP SP2 or Windows 2003, it doesn’t work on Windows 2000 or earlier. Second, your system has to be approved by Microsoft’s original software validation check. And no, this time you can’t simply skip the validation process and keep installing.
I really like it. Much. I haven’t been able to try it out a lot, simply my everyday home navigation: Bloglines, GMail, some interesting links I’ve received by email and little else. I’m going to try it a lot more in the next days, because it’s already my main navigator, having displaced Maxthon as my default browser.
One curiosity, though: I had stored on Favorites precisely the spanish and main internet adress of this blog, www.picacodigos.com; but I had it just like that, without the http://. IE7 refused to acknowledge it as a valid link because of that.
Update 08/02/2006: It’s really beta. I like it, it works and it has a really beautiful simple and elegant design,… but it has too many errors for now. Back to Firefox. Sigh.
In order to uninstall it, just in case you find some trouble, use Control panel -> Add or Remove Programs, but be sure to have cheked the Show Updates option. It’ll be at the bottom of the list, just below all the Windows XP’s Service Packs and patches. Uninstall it, reboot the machine and that’s done.
