Since I have some free time at work, and I don’t use Windows at home, I decided to try out Internet Explorer 7.
After a 14 meg download, 15 minute install, allowing Microsoft to examine my computer, and a reboot, I was greeted with possibly the ugliest web browser I have ever seen!

Don’t believe me? This is what the main menu looks like: (Click to see full sized.)

What the hell is that? The only setting I changed was to show the menu bar (file, edit, etc.) By default it was hidden.
The new tab button has no indication of what it is. (It’s the smooth, gray button next to the Cyberphreak.com tab, in case you are looking for it.) The interface is not customizable, as far as I can tell. You can slide around the tool bars, slightly. It just makes it uglier. The home button is off on the right. Who knows where the stop/reload button is? I don’t.

Edit: There is the stop and reload button to the right of the address bar, of course. Why is it two buttons? I don’t know.
Compare this to the Firefox:

Simple, clean, and customizable. The new tab button actually has an icon on it so I know what it is. It may be a little “old school” but I prefer my cars with a steering wheel, gas pedal on the right, brake on the left as well.
Not a rudder, a gas pedal on the passenger side, and the brake hidden under the rear seat. That is what MS did with IE.

Another problem, the anti-aliasing of fonts sucks ass in IE 7. It makes my LCD monitor look like I have it set on the wrong resolution. I have not bothered to try to fix it, either.

Way to win me over, I gotta tell ya. I will remove my Linux installation, buy a legal copy of Windows (you can ONLY install IE 7 on a legal copy of Windows.) and install IE7 for the sheer user experience.

Edit: Using IE 7, it crashed within 2 minutes of using it. Way to go. Luckily I am using Firefox to post this.