Microsoft launched Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) last night without much fan fair. There where a few blog posts on the official IE7 blog and of course the IE7 homepage was updated but nothing else came up on my radar. I found it because of a post on the Washington Post  RSS feed and a few other sites made mention of it as well. My guess is that a news moratorium expired on the 18th which allowed everyone to "break" the news .

If you are running Windows XP, or Windows 2003 you'll be able to download this newer version but those of you on Windows 2000 or older are out of luck. IE7 takes advantage of stuff (really technical term there) in Windows XP and Windows Vista to improve security and other features.

In our internal testing with the Release Candidates the browser has worked satisfactorily and hasn't caused any major headaches with our clients web sites. The new interface will take some time getting used to so be prepared to curse at it for a bit.

Let us know what you think about IE7!

Microsoft recently announced they will no longer be supporting or improving upon the Internet Explorer browser for the Macintosh platform.

Eric spends a few moments pondering what this means and what user of Internet Explorer for the Macintosh should do about it.