Occasional Observations

Microsoft should have jumped a release number and gone to version 8 with its new Internet Explorer: it's that much better than IE6. It's been a long time coming: I abandoned IE6 in favor of Firefox at the end of 2003. In those days it was still called Firebird and had reached version 0.7.

But back to IE7. It's looking good, and I'll be putting the 'fox in the box for a few days to see if IE7 cuts it. I've already discovered some of the more cool features, such as tabbed browsing (hellooo Microsoft, and a very belated welcome) and the anti-phishing alerts. That's the sort of thing that will really help mainstream computer users, who just wanna surf the net and are blissfully aware of the shark-infested waves.

# posted by Nesjo : 10:04