IE and Vista Betas Out Ahead of Schedule

Yesterday, Microsoft released betas of the new Windows Vista operating system and Internet Explorer 7 web browser. Vista is supposed to be out in wide release by the latter half of next year, and IE 7 sometime later this summer, or at least that's what I read a few months ago. Read more about the betas here. And, in case you don't know, a beta is a pre-release of a software/hardware package, meant for testing by people experienced in testing pre-release software. In other words, MS won't be offering support if you run into problems, though I'm sure they'd like to hear about the problems so they can fix them. We'll see if Vista and the new IE can live up to their claims, and if they actually are released on time, :)