Microsoft Releases Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7

Dana Wollman has known for some time that Microsoft was working on bringing Internet Explorer 10 to Windows 7 - in fact, the company published a blog post promising the preview version would be ready sometime in mid-November. Then, she heard it could be available soon. Well, looky here! It is! The Release Preview is indeed now available to download from Microsoft's site.

As you'd expect, the Win 7 build has the same look and feel as the Windows 8 version, with full-screen browsing, hardware acceleration, deep multitouch support and a predictive "Flip ahead" feature that guesses what page you want to see next (page two of a story, the next round of search results, et cetera). If you own a Windows 7 PC that doesn't have a touchscreen (and that's probably the case), you should still be able to pull off multitouch gestures in IE using a trackpad, assuming you have the right drivers.