Windows XP SP2 to add Download Manager

[neophyte]

It seems someone over at theregister.co.uk has gotten their panties in a knot (or excited)...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/53/36500.html

The Service Pack will also add a pop-up ad blocker to Internet Explorer - the most requested feature according to Rebecca Norlander, Microsoft's group manager for XP SP2 - and a download manager. Norlander said that pop-ups are increasingly used to "dribble" spy ware onto users' machines. Giving users granular control over whether they accept pop-up or ActiveX controls from particular sites is therefore a significant security improvement to IE.

I haven't seen any indications one is available in RC1 (build 2096), and I'm fairly certain that Microsoft were going to leave that for the Longhorn IE builds.

Does anyone have contrary evidence?

[Aaron]

Its false, there won't be a download manager in SP2. RC builds are feature-locked. He probably got confused with the popup-blocker blocking downloads.

It shouldn't be too much of a job for MS to add a download manager tbh, the File Transfer Manager commonly used on windowsbeta.microsoft.com seems decent enough for simple file resume jobs.

[Exodia]

A simple download manager would be a nice feature to have... soemthing that can resume a failed download, thats all i ask.

[Sunil]

Typo

[likuidkewl]

Yes, false I actually asked that question in one of the Chat Sessions for SP2 Beta, IE and OE session, back when it was 2055 and they replied with, not until longhorn. Aaron-I agree I like the download manager for the beta sites works well for me.

[Ausmith1]

Why not just Opera? It has a decent download manager built in. It's way faster than IE too.

These days the only things I use IE for are to access MSDN and our internal ERP apps. IE just plain sucks compared to Opera.