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"Additionally, users will not be forced to migrate to IE7 when it’s released. Of course, we hope our users will upgrade – we’re proud of IE7 and are excited to see it ship! But, if you don’t want to move, you won’t have to. We will continue to keep our IE6 customers secure for those of you who can’t or don’t upgrade to IE7. As previously mentioned, Windows Update’s Automatic Updates will offer IE7 to everyone by default, but it won’t force you to install it."

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Installed IE7 yesterday,

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Installed IE7 yesterday, removed this infection today. First of all, it took 1 hour to install, second, it tells you your security setting are not correct, offers to fix, but does not tell you what exactly will be fixed. Next, cypher strength, does not tell you whether certificate is 128 bit or 256, but when you go to "About", it says 128 bit. What a shame, Microfost! Just look at Opera and Firefox!. What a shame.

I think IE7 has some

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I too think IE7 has some significant hurdles and it will not be until IE8 before the browser gets everything back on track. Something similar to when Netscape 6 was introduced until Netscape 7 came out. Ironically, it was the Mozilla suite that had more success than Netscape, even though Netscape versions 6 and greater is based on Mozilla code. Translation to me...Microsoft may have been better off marketing this as a new browser, version 1.0.

Those that want everything that the old IE6 had and yet all the modern features needed in IE7 will be disappointed I think. I think IE7 actually is the direction Microsoft needs to go...but due to all the baggage it will need to carry it may fail due to the sins of its past. In order for IE7 to work, it has to break some of what worked in IE6. IMHO.