Microsoft has released a Beta 2 “preview” of its Internet Explorer 7 (IE7), now named Windows Internet Explorer (see logo above).

You can download it from here:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/ie7/default.mspx

It has a bit of a Firefox look about it and lots of new stuff. But the PageRank bar doesn’t seem to work, and Bloglines also won’t come up in the browser. There’s quite a lot of stuff not working.

Update: I had to do a System Restore as it grabbed IE6. There may have been an option I missed, but otherwise you can’t use both side by side, it seems. It looks good but some things didn’t work. Simply didn’t have the time to fiddle with it. I recommend you wait for the final version, unless you like living on the edge.