You can now download a Beta 2 “preview” of IE7 (Internet Explorer), now renamed Windows Internet Explorer.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/ie7/default.mspx

It’s a bit of a Firefox lookalike, and contains many new features, not least an RSS aggregator and tabbed browsing.

On my version, which took over IE6, the PageRank bar doesn’t seem to work, and Bloglines also won’t come up in the browser. Lots of things don’t work with it.

Update: In the end I fell back on System Restore as it grabbed IE6. There may have been an option I missed, but otherwise you can’t use both side by side, it seems. It looks good but some things didn’t work. And I simply didn’t have the time to fiddle with it. I recommend you wait for the final version, unless you like playing around with these things. Alternatively, put it on a spare, non-critical computer.