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Geek News Central announces that the IE 7 beta 2 has been released for public download & testing. They have a special podcast of an interview with Margaret Cobb, an IE7 Product Manager.

More comments to come once I’ve actually installed itMy first impressions & comments on this beta are here.

Download the beta here.

Technorati Tags: IE, Microsoft

Stargate enters MMO universe - PC News at GameSpot

With Stargate SG-1 on the verge of becoming the longest-running American sci-fi TV show ever, it seems about time that someone took a crack at turning it into a massively multiplayer online role-playing game for PCs. That someone will be the new development house Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment, the company announced today.

Stargate Worlds will let players explore the universe of the film as soldiers and scientists, creating alliances and trade while defending humanity from hostile alien forces. Little has been revealed about the title, but it will draw upon both Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis for inspiration.

Could be cool, could suck very badly. I’d get it though, I’m too bigger SG fan not to.

Meanwhile, despite all the troubles, development seems to be progressing on Stargate SG-1: The Alliance. Perception’s website has had regular updates and they recently put out a call for beta testers. (If anyone is, or knows a beta-tester, please drop me a line).

Technorati Tags: Stargate SG1, Stargate, Sci-Fi, Games

I’ve now installed the IE7 beta 2 & I thought I’d share my experience with it here. The IE blog has been lauding the new features of IE7 for a while now, so lets see if it at least starts to measure up to expectations (remembering that this is a beta preview release).

IE 7, like all versions of IE before it, installs over the top of any previously installed version of IE. This is a real pain right off the bat, especially as this is a beta release. The irony here is that the people who would most like to beta test, and who would be most valuable for Microsoft to beta test, are web developers. We know what sites should look like. We know the standards, we know the hacks and the common pit-falls and we can test them. But we also need a working copy of IE6 (even if we don’t use it as our own browser) to test the development of the sites we build, so we can’t very well replace IE6 with IE7 because it would interfere with our job. There is a discussion on the IE forum about having both versions installed, and the official response in there is that it can’t be done (never mind that it has been done, right up to and including beta 1 of IE7). So basically I’ve decided to give this beta a go today and then remove it tonight. There’s not much else I can do (other than decide to not play with the beta, and that’s just not going to happen).

So anyway, here we go…

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