Microsoft rebrands Vista IE 7 as IE 7+
WinInfo | at | by Mike
Users who installed Windows Vista Beta 2 got a mild surprise when they checked out the "About" box for the Vista version of Internet Explorer (IE) 7: The browser has been rebranded IE 7+. It turns out Microsoft wanted a way to differentiate the version of IE 7 in Vista from the XP/2003 version, because the Vista version includes a couple of key unique features, such as Protected Mode and parental controls. You may recall that Microsoft significantly updated IE 6 for Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) but then didn't uniquely identify it, so everyone was forced to refer to it as "the version of IE 6 that's included with XP SP2." Now, we have a simpler and more obvious way to talk about the version of IE 7 that's included with Vista. Nice.