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IE 7.0 Leaves Windows 2000 Users Out in the Cold

SAN FRANCISCO—After months of hemming and hawing on plans for a standalone Internet Explorer upgrade before Longhorn, Microsoft Corp. now plans to push out a browser refresh by July or August this year. But the news that IE 7.0 will be available only to Windows XP SP2 (Service Pack 2) customers isn’t likely to sit […]

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Ryan Naraine

Feb 15, 2005

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But the news that IE 7.0 will be available only to Windows XP SP2 (Service Pack 2) customers isn’t likely to sit well with security experts who argue that the threat from the Firefox browser is at the center of Microsoft’s aggressive anti-spyware and anti-virus plans.

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The percentage of Web surfers using Firefox has risen steadily since June, but Microsoft officials are sidestepping the issue altogether.

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