Monday, May 22, 2006

I Like Internet Explorer 7

I've been using IE7 Beta 2 on a couple of my computers and so far I really like it. I have yet to run into a problem. IE7 Beta 1 had several issues some of which were rather serious.

I really like the tabbed browsing function. With it you can have several websites open at a time and jump between them simply by clicking on the proper tab. Very useful to me at the office. You can also save a tab group. This allows you to open a whole group of websites as one Favorite. Very nice!

I think my favorite thing in IE7 is printing. In the past when I printed webpages I would many times lose the right side of the page on the printed document. This made reading the document off-line very difficult if not impossible. In IE7 web pages are reformatted for printing and the whole page prints every time. This in itself is worth the upgrade if you do any printing of web pages.

I'm starting the play around with the RSS reader in IE7 but haven't used it enough to know how I like it yet. Overall IE7 seems like a worth while update. Remember that we do not suggest using any beta software on your critical office computers. Beta software can and does cause problems that can sometimes be serious.