{"id":75,"date":"2006-10-19T12:36:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-19T17:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idespisemicrosoft.com\/?p=75"},"modified":"2026-01-28T18:33:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T00:33:10","slug":"ie7-years-late-and-still-buggy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/?p=75","title":{"rendered":"IE7 &#8211; Years Late and Still Buggy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"justify\">Microsoft released IE7 yesterday complete with all that (cough) &#8220;innovation&#8221; that Ballmer keeps yapping about. Hey look &#8211; Tabs! Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/reviews.cnet.com\/Internet_Explorer_7\/4505-3514_7-32111537.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNet review<\/a>. I couldn&#8217;t have said it any better.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"justify\"><strong>The bottom line:<\/strong> IE 7 was Microsoft&#8217;s one chance to leapfrog ahead of the competition, but the company has only barely caught sight of the current front-runners. For more features and greater security, switch to Mozilla Firefox. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div align=\"justify\">\n<p>And of course, this being Microsoft, what&#8217;s a new browser without an exploit. It took less than 24 hours for Secunia to report a <a href=\"http:\/\/secunia.com\/advisories\/22477\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">vulnerability<\/a>. Talk about <strong>PATHETIC<\/strong>! Of course the apologists are already claiming that this is not a &#8220;new&#8221; bug and that it existed 6 months ago &#8211; which to me is worse. That means Microsoft knowingly released their new browser with an unpatched vulnerability. It also means that all that talk about &#8220;brand new secure code&#8221; is just bunk, and IE7 is just IE6 code with new features copied from Firefox and the other browsers.<\/p>\n<p>It will be interesting to read the reactions (spin) of George Ou, John Carroll and all the other MS shills. Still think VISTA will (once again) be the &#8220;most secure OS&#8221; ever?<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft released IE7 yesterday complete with all that (cough) &#8220;innovation&#8221; that Ballmer keeps yapping about. Hey look &#8211; Tabs! Here&#8217;s the CNet review. I couldn&#8217;t have said it any better. The bottom line: IE 7 was Microsoft&#8217;s one chance to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/?p=75\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":296,"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions\/296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}