Gary Schare Quotations

There are two primary ways that drive-by downloads are done, either through a vulnerability in IE itself or an add-on, or because the user has the security setting set too low.

IE 7 Beta 2 Preview is feature complete. It's a developer and technology enthusiast preview release. Up until now, we've been documenting the rendering and technical changes to IE 7, but people haven't had a way to test it against their sites unless they were in the beta program. IE 7 Beta 2 Preview is a safe release for early adopters, or anyone who has a business need to understand where we're going with IE.

Our key focus was coming up with technology to help protect users from technology attacks, attacks on the software itself.

We'll continue to do performance tuning and bug fixes, and improve the reliability through the beta process.

Beta 1 was really just plumbing. There was a little bit of user interface shown there, but it was pretty light. This release is much richer from an end-user perspective, as well as even on the security front. There is a lot more there.

The target audience is technology enthusiasts. But it can be broadly used. We feel very good about it.

RSS is probably the biggest area of innovation in IE 7. We've done work both on the end user to expose the average user to RSS in a really great way and we've done a lot of work on the platform to enable RSS for any application to take advantage of.

The ones that really matter are those in Windows.

I'd recommend that users running IE at home especially give Beta 2 a try. Its security benefits outweigh any risks of using beta software.