Hello from inside an Internet Explorer 7 window! (As I've learned today, you can keep up on all of the latest news about upcoming versions of IE at the official IE Blog, kept by members of the Internet Explorer team.)
Except for a few late-night events, today's sessions are over -- now we're gathered for dinner in the exhibitor hall, our chance to drink beer, eat acceptably decent catered food, and pester vendors for free T-shirts, pens, and other "swag".
[Don't worry, Shelby -- I've been a good boy and have so far picked up a minimum of giveaway junk; right now, though, I'm wearing a "Windows Mobile" hat, because the Windows fairy bestows five lucky hat-wearing-conferencegoers per day with a Windows-powered PDA+cellphone.]
Posted by Kevin at September 13, 2005 06:19 PMAre you kidding me? Passing up free stuff? Dude, get it ALL! You KNOW we need ballpoint pens at home. What are you thinking?
Posted by: Shelby at September 13, 2005 08:10 PMSorry to disappoint you, but I stopped using IE due to the fact that IE6 was so slow (even with DSL). I'm a Firefox guy now and have no intention of going back. Perhaps you can pass that on to Bill for me?
Posted by: J at September 13, 2005 08:50 PMJ:
Hey, you're not offending me -- I'm not a Koolaid-drinking Microsoft groupie (the enthusiasm of some of my fellow attendees here is a little disconcerting). I'm a Firefox user, too.
Except for current IE6 users, this upcoming release of IE isn't going to knock anyone's socks off. But it fills in a lot of the holes that the open-source browsers have already plugged -- better standards compliance (no, really! this time we mean it!), more security, tabbed browsing, a built-in RSS reader, and so forth. We'll have to see what new stuff the Firefox/Safari/Opera/etc. can come up with as a counter by the time IE7 is finally released ...
Posted by: Kevin at September 14, 2005 11:50 AM