I’ve just downloaded it and my first impression is that it’s slow. However, let’s not jump to conclusions. Maybe this is just a ‘newly installed software’ thing or maybe there are some settings I can tweak to get it zooming along faster…

My second impression is: so what’s new? The browser looks pretty much the same as the last version apart from a couple of the obligatory (yawn) glass-effect buttons up at the top corner. A closer look, however, reveals more ‘new’ stuff such as tabbed browser windows, RSS feed support and improved printing with better shrink-to-fit options. These features are, of course, ‘new’ only to Internet Explorer. Other browsers, such as Firefox and Opera have had them for yonks…

Arguably more important than these things are the extra security features such as an anti-phishing tool to spot dodgy web sites and a browser history-delete option.

The real problem, as far as I am concerned, is that I gave up waiting for IE7 a long time ago. I was never particularly impressed by Firefox but I fell in love with Opera and I haven’t seen anything in IE7 that is likely to win back my affections. Still, it’s probably better than IE6. If that matters to you, download a copy here:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/downloads/default.mspx