Spinlock_1977 writes “ComputerWorld is running a story about developers frustration with IE 7, and Microsoft’s upcoming plans (or lack thereof) for it. From the article, “But the most pointed comment came from someone labeled only as dk. You all continue to underestimate the dramatic spillover effect this poor developer experience has had and will continue to have on your other products and services. Let me drive this point home. I am a front-end programmer and a co-founder of a start-up. I can tell you categorically that my team won’t download and play with Silverlight … won’t build a Live widget … won’t consider any Microsoft search or ad products in the future.”"

While I have not run into these problems I know of one that has and she has headaches making everything work in IE7 when all other browsers are working fine. Yeah for Billyware it is good and they know what you the end user needs you must trust them.

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Users and Web Developers Vent Over IE7

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