Thu, Oct 19 2006 9:54 AM Erwyn van der Meer

Internet Explorer 7 has been RTM-ed

Internet Explorer 7 was released to manufactering (RTM-ed) by Microsoft yesterday. IE7 can be downloaded from the IE7 site on microsoft.com. The download for Windows XP SP2 is 14.8 MB in size and was digitally signed by Microsoft on October 17, 2006.

I am still debating whether to install it or not on my main OS because I am a bit worried about web site compatibility. A lot of web sites probably delayed updating their site for IE7 (if needed) until the inevitable hit. So it might be better to wait a little till enough other people have hit those sites with IE7 and complained to the site owners. I guess I will probably try it out in a Virtual PC before installing it on my host OS.

Don't be confused by the version number of the IE7 installer executable: the version number of the download is 6.2.29.0. Here are some version numbers of the included components:

mshtml.dll 7.0.5730.11 Trident rendering engine
wininet.dll 7.0.5730.11 Internet Extensions for Win32
msfeeds.dll 7.0.5730.11 RSS platform
jscript.dll 5.7.0.5730 JavaScript engine
vbscript.dll 5.7.0.5730 VBScript engine
ieapfltr.dll 7.0.5824.16386 Microsoft Phishing Filter
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# Internet Explorer 7.0

Thursday, October 19, 2006 4:03 AM by Erwyn van der Meer

Since I don't feel like packing my moving boxes yet, I am trying out IE 7.0 RTM for Windows XP SP2 in

# re: Internet Explorer 7 has been RTM-ed

Wednesday, November 08, 2006 5:43 AM by Nick Sevens

I installed it a while ago at home, and actually i didn't have any problems with it so far ...

But ... I wanted to install it at work to, but seems it has some compatibility issues with ActiveX components used in our SharePoint site (in order to enter our working hours in a timesheet etc). So ... I guess i'll have to wait a while longer for that one to install it in my working environment to :(

To bad, cause it sure looks nice ;)

# re: Internet Explorer 7 has been RTM-ed

Monday, November 27, 2006 5:37 PM by Yuhong Bao

>Don't be confused by the version number of the IE7 installer executable: the version number of the download is 6.2.29.0. Yeah, the IE 7 installer is the same one used for Windows updates and hotfixes.