Microsoft introduces latest browser beta

Microsoft has posted on its Web site the first public beta of its next version of the Internet Explorer browser.

The company is touting IE 5.5's advances in three areas: platform, printing and performance - all of which will "further enable developers to create interactive presentations incorporating broadcast quality audio, video and animation; still photos; and text."

Earlier this week, Microsoft posted a version of its IE 5.5 Beta 1 for members of its developer's network only. The program was also included in the Beta 2 release of Millennium, the Consumer Windows successor to Windows 98, which the company began sending to a closed group of beta testers this week.

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