Those of you who read my blog regularly , you’ll know that not so long ago I started using the Opera web browser, well for a few weeks now I’ve also been using Opera Mini… Read more

Ok, I have had Internet Explorer 7 since Beta1. Being the overly keen MS lover i am, I instantly liked it. Then I actually tried to browse the web with it and found it couldn’t or wouldn’t display half the websites I tried to view. I do however think Microsoft have done a pretty good job in fixing most of these bugs. I am now using IE7 Beta 3 and most sites work. But as i’m sure your aware if you use IE7, it’s still not right. I know this is why it’s still in Beta, but it seems to me that MS software is staying in Beta for so long now days! See Alan Stevens blog entry:We’re all beta testers now.

I have always though of myself as pretty faithful to MS but it proving more and more difficult. Even to create this entry I have been forced to use Firefox as IE wouldn’t let me create a new category, instead it ‘gave’ me an error on the page.

I still believe Microsoft make good software, I just wish they would do some testing before releasing it to the public. It seems at the moment if you want to be able to use Active features on sites you must use IE6, if you want to extra features like tabs you must use IE7. If you want both use Firefox.

Maybe this will change when IE7 finally leaves beta?