Asia to get IE7 on new PCs beginning Oct 1st?

[bwhhisc]

QUOTE: Acer and Yahoo! tie-up today, September 20, 2006, 19 hours ago
when Microsoft Corp launches Internet Explorer 7, Acer plans to set Yahoo! as the default search engine for IE7 on all of its computers. Acer will begin shipment of its PCs featuring the co-branded toolbar and co-branded start page on Oct 1 in the Asia

http://p.moreover.com/page?o=rss002&query=ie7

Third story down the page, but I couldn't get link thru to full story.

It appears that this article says Acer Corporation PCs will have IE7 and Yahoo combo beginning October 1st.

[blastfromthepast]

[daccqw]

I heard that IE 7 was considered to be more safer than before, but I have not tried it yet.

[rhys]

Originally Posted by daccqw

I heard that IE 7 was considered to be more safer than before, but I have not tried it yet.

Screw safer! Supports IDNs baby - yeah!

[touchring]

Yeh, so safe, we can't use it for DS. Time to verify the codes to see if they are according to HTML standards! :p

[Rubber Duck]

Originally Posted by daccqw

I heard that IE 7 was considered to be more safer than before, but I have not tried it yet.

Perhaps it is not 100%, but it is 100% better than IE 6.

Originally Posted by touchring

Yeh, so safe, we can't use it for DS. Time to verify the codes to see if they are according to HTML standards! :p

Within a month, IE 7 will be the defacto standard. If your site won't work with it, that will be your problem!

[bwhhisc]

Originally Posted by Rubber Duck

Perhaps it is not 100%, but it is 100% better than IE 6.
Within a month, IE 7 will be the defacto standard. If your site won't work with it, that will be your problem!

If you site won't work with IE7 the Microsoft boys have a fix for ya!~
You can even report the "offenders" to Microsoft . lol

MICROSOFT QUOTE:
To enable you to workaround any remaining sites that block access to Internet Explorer 7, we developed the User Agent String Utility. The utility comes in the form of a small executable that opens an IE7 instance that sends the IE6 user agent string. It also provides a mechanism for you to report problem web sites to Microsoft so that we can follow up with the affected site owners.

http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/

[Rubber Duck]

Originally Posted by bwhhisc

If you site won't work with IE7 the Microsoft boys have a fix for ya!~
You can even report the "offenders" to Microsoft . lol

MICROSOFT QUOTE:
To enable you to workaround any remaining sites that block access to Internet Explorer 7, we developed the User Agent String Utility. The utility comes in the form of a small executable that opens an IE7 instance that sends the IE6 user agent string. It also provides a mechanism for you to report problem web sites to Microsoft so that we can follow up with the affected site owners.

http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/

I missed the point of this when I skimmed on the Blog. Thinking about it now. This is as clear a signal as you are going to get that the IE 7 Rollout is imminent.

Ready or not, here we come!