Internet Explorer 7 Release Candidate 1 has spawned a series of changes from Microsoft, as the Redmond Company is lending a helping hand to developers in preparation for the browser's final release. Marc Silbey, Microsoft Program Manager has posted an entry on the IEBlog informing of Microsoft's initiatives. These are directly related to the technical documentation afferent to IE7. In this regard, Silbey announced that the tech articles posted on MSDN have been updated in accordance with Internet Explorer 7. He also indicated three destinations for articles on Protected Mode, ActiveX Securityand CSS Compatibility.

"As an example, Protected mode changes the way IE opens because it needs to create both low and medium integrity processes, IExplore.exe at low and IEUser.exe at medium. If your application opens and closes IE, you'll want to maintain a handle to the IExplore.exe process even when it's running with low integrity in Protected Mode. In Windows Vista Beta 2 this means you have to create a low integrity process or search through all open process to get a handle to IExplore.exe at low. To make this change easier for you, we created IELaunchURL() in Windows Vista RC1, which helps you get a handle to IE's process across integrity levels. For more details, check out "Launching and Navigating a Protected Mode Process" in the Protected Mode article," stated Silbey.

Also, information on UAC and ActiveX, is available at the following links: ActiveX Installer Service Video on the UAC Blog.