Christopher Mackay’s Blog

Bill Gates has announced that Microsoft will be releasing Internet Explorer 7 ahead of the release of Longhorn (as previously planned).

This suggests to me that

1. Microsoft is feeling the heat from Firefox
2. Longhorn isn’t coming soon enough to placate angry customers (big, corporate ones, that is, who are tired of security issues and malware)

It’ll be interesting to see if IE7 resolves any of the many issues (broken CSS box model, PNG transparency, etc.) web developers have been hoping to see fixed. I’m betting on half-baked security fixes and no improvements on the standards-compliance front. Call me cynical.