Windows 7 will be released in October. Have to say I now look forward to October in a big way and it's not because I will be buying a new computer with Windows 7 on, I already have it running in a virtual machine on my Mac, and used it today to do a job which needed office.

So why am I so excited?
Well Windows 7 does not have Internet Explorer 6 – which is the bane of every web developer under the sun. There are a lot of people still running this very outdated and insecure browser because it is what came with Windows XP or their company won't upgrade.
Enough companies who have hung on to the very last with XP will now upgrade. A lot of consumers who have been thinking about a new PC will jump from XP to 7 and the new browser, IE8.
This is good news for web developers as it means the number of IE6 users will reduce quickly.
What is so bad about IE6?
To be fair it's not all Microsoft's fault, it is too old and has surprised people by being around this long. If Vista had not been a disaster maybe it would be gone now.
The web and the standards it uses have moved on. For a developer, the main issue is that it does not use CSS. This is a reference system which tells the browser how a site looks, its colours and where items go, it makes each page look right. It means hours of fiddling to get an image to stay in one place and look just right, all because the site owner has a friend who uses IE6; with the result that the site looses some of its grace in every other modern browser, will be over.
For you the user, it is insecure, it has no means of identifying harmful sites which support and supply the virus vendors.
So if you are still using IE6 please upgrade, if not to Windows 7 then to IE8 or Mozilla Firefox
Both of which are free.

Happy safe browsing
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