The #1 reason that I REFUSE to use windows it is a pile of JUNK!!! This is just one more example that M$ is trying to take away user choice by tying the browser right into the OS. Should we all stand on our heads and clap that in Vista the browser will run in "protected mode"? Even M$ calls this a "halfway measure" -- more like half-@$$ if they were really truthful about it. Gee and in XPee they won't even have that!! Virus writers, start your coding!!! Once more the public will be inundated by M$ ads telling us that this is "our most secure Operating System" -- remember that pile of drivel we heard at the launch of XPee?? How long did it take for there to be a virus for it? 2 Days?? 3 Days?? Maybe a week??? Regardless of how long it was, it was still a very short time. The sad part is we hear the same ol' market cr@p every time M$ launches a new OS, and they expect the public to run like a bunch of lemings to the sea and buy it. With IE7 it will ONLY run on Windows XPee and Vista -- do you mean I should run out a buy a NEW COMPUTER JUST to run Vista and M$'s Half-@$$ protected browser IE?? I don't think so. And goody: If I'm a virus writer I'll just target Windoze XPee!!!
At best there will be a minor uptake of IE7 -- no one is going to run out and buy an expensive new computer JUST to run a new version of Windoze (and IE7), and those who don't upgrade their computers have heard the same ol' M$ promise of greater security... and every time it turns out to be just another a lie. My bet is that IE7 will be compromised within 2 weeks of launch... if not BEFORE its launch.

The ONLY way I -- and probably many other people -- will ever consider using Windoze again is when Bill Gates and ol' Monkey Boy deside to make Windoze a MODULAR system so the USER -- not M$ -- determines what components they want in their OS.

Vista is DEAD before it even launches and by extention IE7: It requires a major hardware upgrade, there are too many versions of it, it costs too much money, it is still geared to a 32 bit environment when everyone else is moving to a 64 bit environment, it is a half-@$$ OS created by a bunch of half-@$$ people who ONLY care about their bottom line and not the user, etc. As to IE... it will ONLY run on Windoze (Thank GOD for small favors!!).

Oh BTW it seems M$ is not beneath STEALING Open Source software to run in their PROPRIETARY OS (M$ would not call it stealing since it was licensed under the BSD license, but many people would call it just that: stealing: they lifted and incorporated it into their proprietary OS. It will be interesting to see if M$ releases their modifications back to the comunity or will they release the changes back to the community hoping the community will debug their sloppy code.)

All things considered Firefox does not have much to worry about: It runs on MANY DIFFERENT platforms -- including Windoze, LINUX, Unix, etc. And the changes in IE7 are so small they can be incorporated into Firefox without much of a problem. Stick a fork into Vista (and IE7 ) the're done.