The radio toolbar provides a built-in interface for listening to music and news while you browse. Users can bookmark their favorite online radio stations and tweak the volume without opening Windows Media Player. The integration may be convenient for those who like to listen to far-away radio stations online, but there's really no new functionality here. Too bad it can't play Real media, too. Content Advisor Parents worried about what their kids might be seeing on the Web will appreciate IE's additions to the Content Advisor.
Parents can also build their own lists of approved and unapproved sites.
Utterly forgettable otherwise. The Mac-Only Auction Manager Macintosh users have a bonus feature, the auction manager, which will presumably be squeezed into a future version of IE for Windows. The auction manager is a tool for tracking the prices of interesting items on your favorite auction sites. The search functions alone are worth the price of admission. The built-in radio toolbar and Alexa client are convenient.