I think I have used browser alternatives for too long, because I am struggling with IE7.  My Gmail has a little bit of an issue, but my Google Reader is a mess.  I can’t see the next article until I have it highlighted in the reader and different articles are running together.  Firefox has spoiled me.  It lead me towards Camino and I see even less reason to ever go back.

The problem is not at home, but at work.  My team is over 10,000 desktops and 1200 servers, many of which are Citrix/Terminal Servers.  It would be a big deal to move away from IE, but my first 24 hours with IE7 is making me wonder if we couldn’t actually make that move.  We have been doing some testing with Firefox and so far we have been lucky because we have yet to run in to any ActiveX requirements.  Could we pull the switch off?  Who knows, but we could not just roll out IE7 to all of our users as it is.  Since we will need to do some kind of training for either (or at least some kind of documentation for the users) this would be the time to do it if we really wanted to.

I may feel better about IE7 once we have complete control of it with Group Policies, like we do with IE6, but right now all I see is extra work for my team that already has more than enough to do.  We’ll ride out IE6 for a long time, but eventually Microsoft is going to stop supporting it and we will not have a choice.