Ed said:
I have not upgraded to version 7 because of the afore mentioned
reasons plus dozens of other stories I have read about this thing so
you are right, I am not using IE7 and will not until I start seeing a
lot more positive comments about it which with most M$ products should
take around 6-12 months.
It's your choice, of course, and I'm not trying to convince you to do
anything you don't want to do. However let me point out that whenever *any*
new piece of software comes out (from Microsoft or anybody else), what you
always hear about in the newsgroups is problems with it. But realize two
things:
1. If you're reading about problems *here*, this where people come with
their problems, not with their successes. You get a very distorted view of
what's going on in the real world here; as someone once said, "hang around a
transmission shop and you will think that all cars have transmission
problems."
2. Most problems, by far, that people report here--whether or not they are
IE7-related--have nothing to do with defects in the software. They result
from people's ignorance, from bad or inadequate hardware, from old drivers,
from viruses, from spyware, and so on. And except for very rare situations,
they always get a fix for their problems, and in most cases, that fix is a
very simple one to implement.
I have IE7 installed on all my computers here, and have no experienced no
problems with it at all. And in particular because there are security
enhancements in IE, my recommendation is that people *should* install IE,
and now, not 6-12 months from now.
