[H]ardNews 6th Edition

Internet Explorer 7 Beta Goes Public:

Internet Explorer 7 Beta is now available for download. You can read all the info here and then head straight over to MS and grab IE7 Beta. A direct link can be found here.

The program, still a work in progress, became available for download at 9 a.m. PT from the Internet Explorer section of Microsoft's corporate Web site. The company, which began limited testing in July, had promised to deliver a public beta by the end of March. "The big update is that it's public," said Margaret Cobb, group product manager for Internet Explorer at Microsoft. "All previous releases were limited."