{"id":221,"date":"2006-02-02T12:44:46","date_gmt":"2006-02-02T12:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/02\/02\/microsoft-ie7\/"},"modified":"2006-02-02T12:44:46","modified_gmt":"2006-02-02T12:44:46","slug":"microsoft-ie7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/02\/02\/microsoft-ie7\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft IE7"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"IE7I installed Microsoft IE7 Beta 2 preview<\/a> on my machine yesterday. So far I like what I see and although I don’t really think it will get back the people who have already deserted to other browsers like Firefox, I think it may stop others leaving the ship. Personally I’ve never been a fan of FF as it doesn’t offer me anything that I want; I have no need for RSS in the browser or TABS, and generally I found it much slower than IE.<\/p>\n

Anyway, after a day or more using IE7 there are a few things I noticed;<\/p>\n

after trying to use the TAB functionality I have ditched it. I really don’t want TABBED browsing, I don’t see what all the fuss was about. In my opinion Microsoft made the correct decision when it started dropping the MDI from it’s software.<\/p>\n

Having set up the RSS feeds, I really don’t want to read my feeds in a browser, it just don’t feel right,\u00a0and there\u00a0is no notification when new feeds update,\u00a0so I will go back to my seperate Feed Reader Application. It is good that the browser detects the feeds and allows easy subscription, and I just hope that either in XP or under Vista other feed readers will use the underlying RSS model so that I can subscribe while in IE but read in another app. Alternatively Microsoft,\u00a0please add RSS Feeds to outlook, and while you’re at it, add newsgroups as well!<\/p>\n

Other than that I like the look and feel, and the lightweight interface and some of the other little changes… so it’s a goer for me!<\/p>\n

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