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Remember when the Web development community would look forward to the next browser release with flushed excitement? Those days have been dead and gone for years. Now each new browser prompts nothing but groans — it simply means more guesswork, more time spent coding pages, and more bugs to work around. Oh, joy!

But Microsoft's latest browser, Internet Explorer 6 (which hits the streets soon and will ship with the Windows XP operating system in October, 2001), looks like it just might break the trend of developer whining. Not only does it include long-awaited standards support, but it also comes with integrated media features and it's a lot speedier than previous releases. Plus it represents Microsoft's first large-scale implementation of secure user-defined privacy protection. Don't get me wrong, IE 6 has its drawbacks. But with these improvements, it's set to make a big splash with the Web's heart and soul, the end users. More importantly, it's going to appeal to developers.

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