Microsoft unveiled Internet Explorer 7 on October 18, 2006. Immediately following the release, the Redmond Company revealed that the initial English version will be accompanied by additional localized releases of the browser.

Since then, Microsoft is laboring to launch IE7 in no less than 24 fully localized languages, one for each language available for Windows XP. Additionally, the IE Team announced that the Multi-language User Interface version will drop in January following the release of the full language versions. And to finalize Microsoft's efforts to make Internet Explorer 7 international, 55 Windows XP Professional Language Interface Pack (LIP) versions of the browser will come after the MUI pack.

On November 2, 2006, Microsoft made available for download the first wave of localized IE7 releases. Five new languages were added then. With the start of December, the Redmond Company is also delivering Internet Explorer 7 in Chinese and Hebrew.

"We released three additional language versions of Windows Internet Explorer 7 - Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional and Hebrew. This adds to the list of previously released language versions in Arabic, Finnish, French, German, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Russian, Dutch, Korean and Spanish. Download language versions of Windows Internet Explorer 7 here. More language versions of Internet Explorer 7 will be available over the next few months," said Mary Hoffman, Program Manager.