Anyone have Internet Explorer 7 yet?

What are your likes/dislikes?

I found this article:

Hands-on Review: Internet Explorer 7

I've been using various betas of Internet Explorer 7 for a few weeks now and have formed an opinion or two. Is IE7 right for you? Here are a handful of thoughts based on my experience with the new browser.

What I Like

Anti-Phishing Alerts - This is going to be a huge help to millions of IE users who can't tell the difference between paypal.com and paypa1.com. IE7 looks up every site you visit to see if it's a phishing risk, and so far it's correctly identified everything I've managed to throw at it as a scam site. There are allegedly other security improvements under the hood, too, but these are tough to analyze objectively. The notoriously evil ActiveX has largely been nerfed, however.

Printing Repaired - Half the time, printing a web page with IE6 meant losing a few words off the right side of the page. That's fixed in IE7, and it now works most of the time. (Printing Yahoo! Tech pages, unfortunately, doesn't seem to work at all.)
Search Without a Toolbar - A little window in the top right corner lets you search your favorite search engine without having to install a toolbar or visit a search site's home page. It's convenient.

Zoomin' - A magnifier in the bottom left of the screen lets you quick-click among 100% (normal), 125%, and 150% magnification. It's easier than the old "text size" menu and much faster. Use the drag-down to get up to 400% magnification. Yow! It's perfect for those clowns who insist on using birdseed type on a black background.
Better Cleanup System - IE6 had a cumbersome method for deleting your browsing history, cookies, temp files, and the like. Now this has been simplified with a minimal-click method: Tools > Delete Browsing History... > OK. Much quicker and more thorough.
Ambivalent

Tabbed Browsing - I don't really use tabbed browsing (one of the "killer features" of Firefox) and I just don't really like it that much. I prefer navigating multiple browser windows with the taskbar instead of at the top of the screen, but I can certainly see the value in having a method to open multiple web pages at once. Your mileage may vary on this one. The IE7 tabbed browsing does work fine, if that's your scene.

Integrated RSS Reader - It also works well enough, but it's pretty heinously ugly. I doubt many RSS users will switch to this beast.

What I Don't Like

Nagging Rendering Problems - Easily the issue which will keep me from upgrading all my machines for awhile. Some pages (nothing terribly complex) look completely wrong in IE7, even those that look just fine in IE6. There's simply no reason for this to happen, and Microsoft's annoying habit of pushing its own versions of web features instead of adhering to standards are the root cause. There's not much you can do aside from a) wait for Microsoft to fix its code to handle these sites or b) wait for the sites to change their code to adapt to IE7. Either way, I don't want to get stuck in the middle of that.

Mixed-Up Interface - It's great that Microsoft has streamlined the browser a bit by removing some unneeded icons, but losing the text menu bar is a real pain, and moving the favorites menu to the far left has taken some real getting used to. The text menu is of course still there. You just push the Alt button to bring it up... which you have to do all the time in order to change Internet Options, run Windows Update, or do just about anything else. Why not just leave it there, and at the top of the screen where we expect it to be? (Instead, the address bar is now at the top and the text menu appears below that. Then toolbars, then the quick-launch icons below that.)

Re: Anyone have Internet Explorer 7 yet?

No, but work warned us that it is coming and to be aware some of our web based programs may not work properly.