Internet Explorer 10 Release Preview For Windows 7

IE10 almost ready for Windows 7

Big under-the-hood changes are coming for Internet Explorer on Windows 7 as the first IE10 release candidate hits the street.

Two things you won't get in Internet Explorer 10 on Windows 7: the new Metro-style, chromeless interface or the rich interactivity between the browser, the desktop, and pinned sites.

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The first Internet Explorer 10 Release Preview for Windows 7 has arrived, gifting many of its improvements to the older OS as Microsoft prepares to keep IE current beyond the gates of Windows 8.

"There's a long alphabet soup of new abilities that we've built into Internet Explorer 10" for Windows 7, Ryan Gavin, Microsoft's general manager for IE, said during an interview last week at CNET's San Francisco office. In addition to porting over the new IE10 Chakra and Javascript engines, IE 10 on Windows 7 also gets the Touch API innovations that help drive the browser on Windows 8; the security measures built into IE10 -- at least, the ones that are not dependent on Windows 8; location bar autocomplete; and an on-by-default Do Not Track header.

"Touch is the new fast," said Gavin, explaining that as the major browsers achieve similar speed benchmark scores, how they allow people to interact with touch screens will become a big part of which browser people end up using by default.

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