Google Customizes Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7

Google has released a customized version of Microsoft's IE7. The customizes browser uses Google as the default search engine, not Windows Live Search. Google also released a customized IE7 browser with the Google Toolbar and a user customizable Google Home Page.

Apparently Google, Yahoo and other big name corporations simply used the Internet Explorer Administration Kit to customize the home page for their users. It is a free download by Google, and is probably not what Microsoft expected from their new Internet Explorer 7 browser.

Microsoft Group Program manager Tony Chor addressed the new Google customized IE7 browser on Microsoft's IEBlog,

"Microsoft released the toolkit so developers could customize IE, as well as to provide companies with help to configure and deploy the browser through the enterprise..."

Maybe Microsoft needs to take notes from MAC and start developing tools that can't be integrated into every other technological outlet available. Or, maybe the exposure will be a great tool for them.

Hopefully the IE7 browser won't have any bugs, because we all know how Microsoft likes to release brand new versions of their products instead of fixing the problem...Always leading to more Beta Bugs. We'll see, but one thing I know for sure, if Google's on board with IE7, it can't be all bad!

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