And this time it is MS momentum. IE7 is causing a whole lot of problems, so much so that MS has even build an IE7 download blocker! But what is funnier, is that people that say something about it, like this article, are immediately being told off.

Now here is the interesting part: the comments supporting IE7 in this particular article are 100% right; this was a company and its IT director should have been on top of things. He is supposed to know, and have known about problems and fixes for IE7, not to mention the download blocker, instead of a memo (how much of an executive did this guy think himself of to send a memo instead of actually working on the IT infrastructure by blocking the “update”?).

But they are also 100% wrong. IE7 might be an improvement, but it is not READY yet, and for IE to launch it on their update service before it is ready is… what is the word… is there a word for it?

This is the momentum of “I know that and I will use that” and never bothering with checking what else is available. I have denounced IE for a few months now and I’m happier for it. Were it not for the new MSN that as part of its installation required the IE7 to be installed, I wouldn’t even have IE7. After that I also had a few problems, which resolved themselves after about a week of me fiddling about with settings and finally making IE7 not do anything. It doesn’t detect for connections, it doesn’t bar anything, it doesn’t remember anything, and I don’t use it either. But all my other programs work now.