Version 7 of Internet Explorer is currently under development; beta versions have been released on a regular basis, most recently Release Candidate 1 (build 5700.6) released August 24, 2006.
Version 7 is intended to defend users from phishing as well as deceptive or malicious software, and also features full user control of ActiveX, and better security framework.
Internet Explorer is also a user interface for FTP, with operations similar to that of Windows Explorer (although this feature now requires a shell window to be opened as of version 7, rather than natively within the browser).
By integrating support for RSS feeds into its browser, Microsoft is promising IE 7 users the ability to tailor their own stream of personalized information directly through the software, delivering the news, sports and shopping information they request as it is posted on the Web.
While a previous beta of IE 7 for XP, issued in July 2005, had some of the capabilities offered by the development tools, he said that the newest iteration of the browser represents a far more polished version of the RSS software.
Another aspect of IE 7 that Schare said received significant attention was the browser's Advanced Printing options, which added the ability for users to view multipage previews, shrink content to fit on a page, and reformat Web site data for more effective formatting on paper.
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