The First Year of IE7 — Still Hated

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The IEBlog posted The First Year of IE7 today and lets just say that the comments are anything but positive. Check out the scathing comments:

http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2007/11/30/the-first-year-of-ie7.aspx

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