Yesterday I already downloaded FireFox 3 on my MacBook Pro and today on my PC. In the meantime I also downloaded and installed IE8 Beta. Both are working just fine for me.

Grz, Kris.

I installed IE7 last week and really enjoy it. This morning I took a look at the on10 site of Microsoft and saw the video about addons for IE. I like the inline search capability of FireFox and when I saw there's an addon for IE available I immediately installed it. It's a bit of a shame that it isn't the default search functionality in IE but the addon does the work .

Taken from the website: Inline Search is an extremely useful free add-on for Internet Explorer that mimics Firefox's search behavior, it turns searching into a Web page into a non modal research experience coupled with a search as you type facility. It integrates flawlessly into IE (version 5.5 or above), giving it that little extra that makes you a lot more efficient when you are looking for a specific piece of information.

You can download the addon here.

Grz, Kris.

I've been using IE7 since the betas and really liked the new version. Especially the tabbed pages and the overview that you can take of all open windows on 1 page is a great experience. I don't really use the built in RSS capabilities at the moment as I use GreatNews to read my subscribed feeds. The integrated search and the possibility to select a different search engine is something I was fond of when using FireFox. Now it's also integrated in IE.

You can download IE7 or take a tour of the features here: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/default.mspx.

Grz, Kris.

Yesterday I visited the .NET Framework 3.0 Development event provided by Microsoft. It was a great introduction to the new upcoming technologies: WPF, Cardspace, WCF and WF.

The first 2 sessions were presented by Peter Himschoot, a regional director for Belgium. The last 2 were presented by Ingo Rammer, the known Austrian regional director.

My impression: WPF looks way cool. It looks quite flexibel and the 3D effects were also looking great. Peter also showed us a WPF application running sandboxed in Internet Explorer and apparently this is called an XBAP application.

CardSpace looks promising but I still need to see it in practice. If it can live up to the expectations it could have a very bright future though.

Then Ingo showed us WCF and later on WF. This was for me the first time I saw WF in action. Boy did I wish I could already use it in my current project, it would a great time saver for the workflows I need to implement.

The last session, and also the most interesting probably, was the one where WCF and WF were used together. I just checked Ingo's blog and as he promised he uploaded the slides and demo applications. You can download them here.

Grz, Kris.

Just got back from vacation and look what Microsoft provides: Internet Explorer 7 RC1. Get it while it's hot.

Grz, Kris.

Get it while it's hot: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=4C1A8FBE-FB6A-47AC-867D-BB1F17E477EE&displaylang=en.

Be sure to first uninstall previous versions of the beta before you install this one. Also check out the announcement on the IEBlog.

Grz, Kris.