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07:21 MSFT WSJ's Walter Mossberg reviews Microsoft's new Internet Explorer (28.52 )

WSJ reports "I have been testing IE 7, and I agree with Microsoft that it's much improved. If you are a confirmed IE user, upgrading to this new version makes perfect sense, because it is likely to be more secure and its new features make Web browsing better.

But if you are already using Firefox, IE's main competitor, I see nothing in IE 7 that should make you switch. The only really notable new interface feature in IE 7 is something called Quick Tabs, which lets you view, on one page, thumbnails of all the pages you have open in tabs.

But the most important new security feature in IE 7 -- something called Protected Mode, which stops Web sites from changing your computer's important files or settings -- will work only in the new Vista version of Windows, due next year, not in Windows XP."