As much as I take criticism for liking IE7 and it’s predecessor IE6, I think this article pretty much sums it up. I am linking to it through Slashdot so be patient. I have been saying right along that Microsoft having such a big market share over everyone else is the only tried and true software around, excluding maybe Unix. It’s pretty plain and simple numbers just don’t lie.
I have a few follow up items to post and then more on what’s been going on lately. I posted about IE7 having a problem rendering my friend’s site. This was not entirely the case, apparently he had copied some bad code for a post and it broke the site for several browsers. I also posted about Windows Vista Crashing on me and that was a two-fold problem. First was a hard drive problem, which is not a problem with vista but a physical problem with my computer, second was an unsupported piece of software I was running since windows 95 and should not have even tried on this machine. So hurry for me nothing bad to report about microsoft, I love the new release of Vista and IE7, infact I would go as far as to say if you have an illegal copy of windows running on a machine upgrading to a real copy is worth it just for IE7. NO I DO NOT GET PAID BY MICROSOFT! 
I should have known that something else would go wrong when I found the IE7 thing last week, and it finally did. Last night I went home and started up the laptop and …….Nothing, my Windows Vista has crashed I will reload it this week and try it again. (To be fair my Mac OS X also crashed with an update I did.) I may actually put in a new hard drive and do a full install instead of a dual boot. We shall see.
OK I know it’s been talked about a bunch already but if you haen’t tried it yet it can be kind of addicting, it’s called the ESP game and you can check it out here.
So in my last post I said how much I like the new windows vista….. well right after I wrote the post I noticed that the new version of IE didn’t work with a friend of mine’s website. So for now I am recommending everyone stick with Firefox, although I really want to love the new IE I am going to have to wait untill they fix it.
So I got the latest build of Windows Vista, a pre-release candidate copy, and wow what a difference. I was pretty happy with the last one I had but this one is far better, several of the complaints I had are all fixed and the computer just seems to run faster. Networking is easier than ever and many functions like “sleep” seem to work flawlessly. Hopefully the public release will be soon to follow, rumor has it by the end of this month. Time will tell……