According to Microsoft?s IEBlog, IE7 will be released this month via Automatic Update. Companies are being advised to take a risk assessment of their organisation to decide if they should globally deploy the browser.
Deri Jones, CEO of webtesters of SciVisum comments ?IE7 may at first appear better and more standards compliant than IE6, but as it comes with almost as many bugs, overall it leaves one disappointed! IE7 fails even to catch up to where other browsers like Firefox have been for some years with their CSS and HTML support. Indeed developers will be left frustrated that important elements of CSS 2.1 are still not handled.?
?As it looks like Microsoft have decided to push the upgrade to IE7 out through windows update within weeks of IE7?s release, this means that zillions of users are going to be upgraded without them really being aware, and the volume of calls to corporate help desks and home-user ISPs is likely to be a nightmare. Plus the pressure will really be on web developers to sort things out ‘right now’.?
?Microsoft?s failure to implement a mode in IE7 that makes it display a page as if it was IE6 (and which can be triggered by code in the web page) could end up being short sighted. This option would give web developers the ability to decide themselves when they’re ready for IE7. If a site needs a bit of tidy up to fall in line with IE7, then it just may not be convenient for a business to address that immediately, rather than incorporate it into existing work schedules.?
?Indeed, as others have commented, it is arrogant of Microsoft to expect the internet to change and fall in line with their software and not the other way around – an error in judgment that could come back to haunt them! Particularly as news of IE7?s release could pre-empt many ‘slow adopters’ finally making the move to Firefox. Indeed as users can’t run both IE6 and IE7 on the same PC, if you hit a site that fails using IE7 it could well prove to be the only option.?
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