Browsers: What do you like/dislike about Internet Explorer 7?

Why? Why would I want to use IE 7?

In reply to: What do you like/dislike about Internet Explorer 7? by John.Wilkinson 

With all the wealth Microsoft has it doesn't use any of it to make anything they make the best in the world. Why because they don't have to. Just like in the golden age of the Big Three Automobile Makers, GM, Ford and Chrysler, they didn't have to go out and spend their wealth to upgrade their manufacturing plants to make the best cars in the world, because the American public for the longest time bought anything they produced. Mircosoft doesn't have to concern itself with being the best, because they too have a large captive audience.

Human lemmings who will do whatever Microsoft tells them to do, you buy computers with their operating system in it, you use the bundled software that comes with it without thinking, therefore they don't have to make the best product. Why waste money when you don't have to, that makes their stockholders happy.

So Microsoft launches IE 7, does it really have anything in it that hasn't been tried before? Is there anything in it that I've just got to have? NO! I can remember before Firefox came on the scene and Netscape had come out with it's new Navigator and Messenger 7.0 which was the most advanced Browser and Email program on the face of the earth, but no one knew about it, because of Microsoft's control of the market, including the press, like c/net. Even when the first version of Firefox was launched, Mozilla bragged about different advancements it had over IE, but Mozilla like c/net forgot to mention that they had already been employed in Netscape 7.0, 7.1, 7.2 & 8.0.

To the uninformed it should be noted, that Mozilla was part of Netscape for years prior to AOL forcing Netscape to spinoff Mozilla. Mozilla was effectively the R&D of Netscape, so the inner workings of both Netscape and Mozilla are almost identical and both have many of the same visual components users of both have come to love. The email programs Thunderbird 1.5 and Messenger 7.2 are virtually identical, I know I've used both of them.

So no I have no interest in IE 7, but I'll download it and install it, because too many corporate types still are human lemmings and to download drivers or software from their companies you need to have the latest IE installed.