IE 7 Tabs Will Be ‘Basic,’ Says Microsoft

Microsoft’s Internet Explorer development team acknowledged Monday that it was a mistake not to build tabs into IE earlier. But the team’s not rushing into updating: the tab feature in the next version of the popular browser will on the “basic” side.

“The Tabbed browsing experience in the upcoming IE7 beta is pretty basic,” wrote Dean Hachamovitch, IE’s product manager, in a post to the team’s blog. “Expect additional end-user functionality to come in after the beta,” he went on.