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Some of us had great hopes for Internet Explorer 7. We were hoping that it would offer great support for Web standards, perhaps even on par with that of the leaders in the Web browser arena. Our hopes were slowly smothered as IE 7 moved from beta-beta to real-beta to release-candidate to release version.

In the end, all we got was a patched up IE 6, which while being a lot better still is lagging far behind when it comes to… pretty much everything. And that includes features that the normal user notices. The new UI is horrible. But what do I know? A company with the kind of resources that Microsoft has must have done thorough interaction design and user testing of the new UI. Right?

But the current IE 7 is what we got, and Microsoft is Microsoft and Microsoft does whatever it pleases. So I do find it a little bit odd that Microsoft feels the need to - once again - ask developers for input on what we need from the next version of IE (IE Next). We have already told you that. Over and over and over. 10 must haves in IE Next | 456 Berea Street