I unfortunately was a little disappointed with the IE7 beta. It did offer major improvements over the previous version, yet it lacked some aspects that I hoped would make my life easier as a web developer.

I found it’s core to be very similar and still forcing me to create multiple CSS entries to adjust to it’s rendering differences from versions of Firefox and Safari.

I do feel it is going in the right direction and I look forward to the finished product.

(nothing personal, just IE hatred)

;)

You can put a silk dress on a pig but it’s still a pig.

Actually, you can use IE7 with near viral and moral impunity, if you only use the uninstalled stand-alone version (the only ie I allow on my computer at all is a standalone version).
Skyzyx Downloads used to offer all editions of ready-made standalone ie zip packages but the Microsoft Monster has apparently been breathing down his neck and they’re not there at the moment.
However, it’s easy to turn the beta from msdn into a standalone, using the instructions from this website:

http://weblogs.asp.net/jgalloway/archive/2005/12/28/434132.aspx

Not that I’ll be using 7 — 5.5 standalone is more than good enough for the rare occasions when I don’t use Firefox.

Doesn’t matter how beautiful 7 looks, if you can’t plug it up with the adblock extension.

I can neither confirm nor deny the existance/use of a Windows PC. Ok, you got me. Yes, I run Windows 2000 Pro, but I’m planning on doing my periodic wipe/reinstallation and just run Advanced Server 2000. I also have a PC running Red Hat Fedora Core 3, and an iBook with MacOS X. Oh, and I only have the Windows PC to play games. Yeah, and I got MCSE+Security. There! Are you happy you outed me?! *crying in the corner in the fetal position mumbling “Bill Gates really is the Devil”*
:-)

LOL. I can’t help myself.