maddy,

While I prefer Netscape 8.1 for personal use, I've been using IE7 at work in test for a bit now, and while there are changes to the UI that take a bit to get used to, I found it to be a major improvement. We do a lot of weblications where I work, and we needed to be confident that they wouldn’t break with IE7.

I found the tab groups easy to configure and maintain, and you can subscribe to RSS feeds via the browser. Another feature is the addition of a text box that lets you search directly from the browser rather than through a dedicated webpage. I like the fraud protection that changes the color of the address bar to red when you hit a known phishing site. You get a pop-up warning if the site you are visiting engages in suspicious activity.

But let’s face it, as the first upgrade to IE in five years, IE 7 is still an effort by MS to catch up with other browsers, as these “new” features have been available for a while in browsers such as Navigator, Firefox and Opera.

Still, give the Devil his due, all in all, a good, sound upgrade. Recommended.

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