Microsoft's upcoming Internet Explorer 7 will run on other operating systems besides Windows XP SP2, the company's official IE blog revealed Monday, but Windows 2000 remains off the list.
In mid-February, chairman Bill Gates promised a new version of IE before Longhorn ships, and said the new browser -- which will concentrate on delivering additional security against such threats as phishing -- would roll into beta this summer. At that time, only Windows XP SP2 was mentioned as a supported OS.
According to the posting on the blog, IE 7 will also work on the 64-bit edition of XP (with the long title of "Windows XP Professional x64 Edition") and the upcoming Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 (SP1).
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