Walt Mossberg takes a look at Internet Explorer 7 — now available — and finds “that it’s much improved.”
But, more importantly, he adds, “It’s mostly a catch-up release, adding to IE some features long present in Firefox and other browsers.”
Bottom line, “The new Internet Explorer is a solid upgrade, but it’s disappointing that after five years, the best Microsoft could do was to mostly catch up to smaller competitors.”
NewMexiKen continues to use Firefox and occasionally Safari (Mac only). Firefox 2.0, not quite ready for prime time, has some nice new features.
Meanwhile, my reaction to Windows Vista — and in all honesty I haven’t really worked with it that much — is that it will make millions of adopters very unhappy. I can’t explain it actually, it’s just a sense that it’s too different and somehow there’s no obvious consistency to all the changes.
If I had Microsoft stock I’d sell it short in the first months after the Vista release.