I have been testing IE7 BETA for a while. Its nice to see MS have finally caught up with every other major browser as far as features go (like TABS
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, RSS support, popup blocking, phishing filters and other security improvements), but there's still a few things wrong. Firstly FTP support was beautiful for a newbie users in IE6 - so simple, just drag and drop to an FTP:// site as if it was a normal folder. IE7 doesn't even seem to be able to connect to FTP never mind downloading or uploading. The option for it is still there under advanced options, but its unticked by default and doesn't seem to work when it is ticked.
Tab management is now quite smooth and integrates nicely, but the new UI may confuse people at first glance. ClearType rendering makes it stand out, but this can be enabled using Windows display properties for all programs anyway.
Overall I still prefer firefox becuase of its vast extensibility. IE will (I reckon) never get that.