IE7/WMP11 Launch News

crookbond · 13-10-2006, 05:57 AM

According to a new Vista-related press release on Microsoft's site, Windows Media Player 11 will be released to the public on October 24th.

"Windows Media Player 11 will be available via free download beginning Oct. 24 and will enable users to take advantage of an elegant and intuitive user interface, a new level of online store integration, especially with MTV’s URGE service, and improved navigation for larger music libraries."

An obscure post over on the MSDN blogs, states that Microsoft is targeting October 18th as the release date for Internet Explorer 7. Looks as though Microsoft is planning to release IE7 automatically on November 1st:

"The final release of Internet Explorer 7 is targeted for release October 18th …and will be delivered to customers via Automatic Updates starting November 1st, a few weeks after it’s available for download. Are your Web sites, extensions, and applications ready? Microsoft recommends that Web sites and applications be reviewed and made ready for the release of Internet Explorer 7 this month."

Source :- http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/p...roductsPR.mspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/hied_mid-atlan...ady_3F00_.aspx

aku · 13-10-2006, 06:59 AM

oaky.. but the question r users really waiting for ie7.. though it has many improvements.. but still can it its a no match for opera and firefox

ravi_9793 · 13-10-2006, 07:08 AM

I m waiting for ie7 final...ans wmp11 final.

Third Eye · 13-10-2006, 08:12 AM

Good !

Vishal Gupta · 13-10-2006, 10:45 AM

Thats a good news

thnx buddy for sharing it

13-10-2006, 11:16 AM

good times are coming

nishant_nms · 13-10-2006, 03:34 PM

nice info I am waiting for both of them

pra_2006 · 13-10-2006, 04:28 PM

i am using IE7 BETA3 and WMP11 BETA2 both r really good now waiting for final versions

paul_007 · 13-10-2006, 04:44 PM

me too waitin for final versions ....

aryayush · 13-10-2006, 05:00 PM

Internet Explorer 7 is good?! What is good about it?
The 'Stop' and 'Refresh' buttons are in such an awkward position and are much too small. The tabs cannot be dragged from one window to another. There are no mouse gestures, extensions/plug-ins/widgets and no download manager. The top of the window is almost always occupied by a ribbon warning about some download, ActiveX control, pop-ups or the like.
After you have used Opera and/or Firefox, it's almost a guarantee that you won't switch back to it. I could go on...

Windows Media Player, on the other hand, is a pretty good media player and looks really cool, specially on Vista. However, it is bloated and bulky. It runs fine on my laptop which is eqipped with two gigabytes of RAM but is pathetically slow on my PC with 512 megabytes of memory.