Before making a decision about IE7, regardless if your happy with IE6, you should find out what security/functional enhancements it will contain.

However, it is not due in beta form until the summer and I too have no desire to become an MS beta tester.

I would have been far happier if this beta release was a planned roadmap release (originally it wasn’t due until Longhorn was released), rather than being rushed out the door.

Regardless of what MS is stating, that this has nothing to do with the march of firefox (25 million downloads in 99 days after firefox 1.0 released), or the slating IE is getting in the IT/security media.