IE7 to be released in the very near future
IE7 will be released to the general public, in the very near future, and will involve a full workup of the current IE model. A few of the changes we can expect to see will be:-- Tabbed Browsing
-- A Built In Spell Checker
-- A Built in Spyware Detection And Removal Tool (currently known as Microsoft AntiSpyware Beta)
-- Full CSS2 compatabilities
-- Full W3C compliance
-- Full Standards Compliance
-- A Uniquely Integrated Antivirus System
-- Working Popup Blockers
-- Full Integration With Windows Firewall (updated)
-- Fully Secured
This will be the final release of IE available publicly, all future versions will be only made available with future versions of Windows, starting with 7.0.1, which will be a bugfix release only.
Estimated release? June 30th, 2005. For more details, visit the IE homepage.