It looks like IE7 will have tabbed browsing:

Yes, IE7 has tabs ... I liked them a lot in Office dialogs and in Excel in the early 90's ... we almost added tabs to Word at one point ... I like them in Visual Studio ... You can browse with tabs with IE6 (and some earlier IE versions) today in a few different ways. Several third parties, like Maxthon, have built browser experiences with tabs on top of the IE platform. Several third parties have built toolbars to provide tabs within IE as well. MSN's recently released toolbar will also be providing support for tabs within IE when they update it in the coming months.

No mention of Firefox. Or Opera. Or Safari. Or Mozilla. Or OmniWeb. Or any non-Microsoft products at all. It's as if they have been erased from history.

I guess Microsoft is too proud to admit someone else innovated and they followed.

There is one dig at the competition: "We've also looked closely at reported vulnerabilities in other implementations of tabbed browsing." Because, you know, it's those other guys who have the security problems.

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