This morning, the familiar yellow security icon appeared in my desktop tray. I knew what was going to happen next, Internet Explorer was going to get updated.

I was right, it was the only issue that needed to be updated.

Downloading wasn’t much of a challenge. Roughly 16mb at first, and I ran an errand while the subsequent download/install phase took place. When I got back from the grocery store, my computer was ready to reboot.

Changing the default text-bolding mechanism was the first step, and fixing some of the toolbars around so that I could get a grasp on what was going on with the menus. Chose to stick with default tools only for now.

The true scare came when I saw how a couple of my sites looked under IE7. I did a similar test recently after upgrading to Firefox 2 with no issues; but IE7 was trashing primarily DHTML and CCS menus that were being used on some sites. Even though these sites validated 100% at the W3C Validator, as some of you already know it doesn’t matter much when you’re dealing with buggy browsers.

My sites that relied on primarily HTML 4.0 code, with more tables than css, weren’t harmed by IE7 bugs.

IE7 was basically a solid install without any issues. It isn’t crashing or behaving erractically. So in that respect, we can say Microsoft did well. However, Microsoft has some work to do before IE7 will be accepted within the enterprise market.

For me, I’m going to use Firefox a bit more.