FYI, IE 7, due to start beta testing May/June, will have tabbed browsing capability. Although IE 7 was going to be shipped with the new Longhorn, with security the top priority, new encryption is allegedly meant to prevent phishing. Continual criticism of the security of earlier versions may have precipitated the early release of IE 7.

It may also be the case that M$ take a step ahead of their competitors, Firefox and Google.

It appears that the the popularity of Firefox 1.0, since it's launch in November 2004 has forced M$'s hand. The rumours that Google were contemplating a browser of their own, were fuelled by the number of ex Mozilla staff that have been employed, despite denials by google, though it may well be that they see the future to be with Firefox, rather than IE and want to just modify it

Certainly, M$ in their MSN guise, were caught on the hop by Gmail, increasing the size of Hotmail inboxes, and the release of the MSN toolbar, to compete directly with the google toolbar, and undoubtedly don't wish to be caught out again

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