Microsoft Officially Releases Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 and Out Pops the first Advisory

Despite the leak that occurred two weeks ago, during which the whole world saw Microsoft’s brand new IE7 (or at least its beta), now, the company from Redmond has decided to officially release the first generally available beta for Internet Explorer 7, as well as Windows RSS Platform, a for-developers set of APIs for creating RSS-enabled applications.

Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 Preview will only run on Windows® XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) systems, but will ultimately be available for Windows Vista, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, and Windows Server 2003.

The Windows XP edition of IE 7 Beta 2 Preview can be downloaded from here.

And so it begins...

Advisory: sp-x23-advisory

So I saw that Microsoft released IE 7.0 Beta 2 to the public today. So, I figured I would give it a quick look at and I just happened to find something within the first 15 minutes into testing. Weird huh? So your probally thinking, why release an advisory on a beta product? Well, why not? Its Microsoft right? You can check out the advisory here, and the PoC here.. And for the ones not running windows, here is a screenshot if your interested...