Availability of Windows Internet Explorer 7

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INTRODUCTION

Windows Internet Explorer 7 is now available. Internet Explorer 7 includes many improvements to reliability, compatibility, user features, and security.

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System requirements

Internet Explorer 7 runs on any of the following operating systems:

Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2)
Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 (SP1)

For a list of the minimum requirements that the computer must have to run Internet Explorer 7, visit the following Microsoft Web page:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/downloads/ie/sysreq.mspx (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/downloads/ie/sysreq.mspx)

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Features

For a list of Internet Explorer 7 features, visit the following Microsoft Web page:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/ie7/about/features/default.mspx (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/ie7/about/features/default.mspx)

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Download information

To download Internet Explorer 7, visit the following Microsoft Web page:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/downloads/default.mspx (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/downloads/default.mspx)

Users of pre-release versions of Internet Explorer 7 can also install Internet Explorer 7 as a high-priority update from Automatic Updates, from the Windows Update Web site, or from the Microsoft Update Web site.

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For more information about how to configure and use Automatic Updates in Windows XP, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

306525 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306525/ ) How to configure and use Automatic Updates in Windows XP

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