All this talk about IE7 beta 2 introduction made me go have another look. I downloaded, installed it without incident. It seems to have some improvements over IE6 (the tabbed environment for example but I am not a huge fan of that paradigm -- maybe some use will change my opinion), and it fixes some problems that I had in the last one I tried (previous versions caused Microsoft Producer to crash for instance). I am hoping the myriad of CSS and DOM stuff that was broken or idiosyncratic was also fixed under the covers (I haven't seen enough to know if that happened).
But the one area where I (and I think many others) had hoped it would be an improvement is its function with RSS. But it seems to fall way short. Even knowing the features are there somewhere, it took me a while to figure out how to use them. There seems to be no button, menu item at first glance to build, use or view subscriptions (it is buried under the favorites function). And when it finds an RSS feed on a site and allows you to click on the fancy new icon it gives you no way to subscribe to the feed. (P.S. it seems there is a link -- not sure why I didn't see it at first)
This is just not good. Nobody but experienced users are going to be able to find and use feeds. I thought the whole purpose of the RSS implementation was to allow non geeks to use RSS and other feeds. This implementation doesn't do that. It doesn't even come close.
