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The IE blog notes that they’ll have a public IE 7.0 beta in Q1 2006:

Every day, I get lots of email asking for a build of IE7 for XP. If you have an account on the internal Microsoft corporate network, I have a link I can send you.

For everyone else, we need a better answer than “We’re hiring; please come join us.” …

We’ll post an updated pre-release build of IE7 for Windows XP publicly – no MSDN membership required – during the first calendar quarter of 2006.

Just post it already. You’re only hurting yourselves by not having a build available today. Just stamp ALPHA all over it and be done with it.

In the mean time every web developer on the planet will have access to FireFox nightly builds.

Want a better option? Base IE 7.0 on FireFox 1.5. It’s a better browser anyway and you’ll be done tomorrow.

It’s Open Source so if you want to innovate you can just do what Flock did. Better yet you could just buy Flock.

Something tells me that Microsoft isn’t wise enough to see that happen.