The IE blog is reporting that Microsoft will be releasing a new version of IE this summer. It looks like Microsoft’s plans to use Longhorn as the delivery vehicle for browser upgrades has been reversed. Do not hold your breath, but we can only hope that the new version of IE includes support of various Web standards such as Cascading Style Sheets, the PNG image format and XML. In many ways this seems like Microsoft is attempting to get corporations and orgainizations to stay with IE for a little longer and not switch over to a different browser.

CNet has an article about this here. Included is a nice quote, “I think it’s a response to both the delay of Longhorn and the challenge of Firefox,” said The NPD Group analyst Ross Rubin, who said Firefox was probably more of a spur. “Were there no Firefox, they’d have more leeway to sit on it until Longhorn.”

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