I am not particularly anti IE7 (although I do think that all versions of IE are inferior 
in terms of stabiilty and security to Firefox or Opera).

But in the particular respect of upgrades on XP, IE7 has often been quirky and sometimes 
extremely quirky. I have an XP laptop with IE7 that has never me given any stability 
problems, and another which simply would not function when I foolishly left automatic 
updates turned on . . . and along came IE7.

When IE7 landed on PCs in this unstructured way, this forum was full of quirks people 
wanted fixed. The rate of postings has fallen a lot - presumably either because they 
got fixed, got lived with, or the poster reverted to IE6 or a production-strength 
browser.

Or they found specialist IE7 forums, which still seem pretty busy.
 
There are lots of people running IE7 without problems, but I feel like a doctor faced 
with a 95 year-old heavy smoker - you don't use their longevity as a basis for advising 
others to smoke :-)

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