Microsoft will release the final build of IE7 today to customers. IE7 will be made available via Automatic Updates on the 1st of November. At the moment there is no link on Microsoft.com, but Yahoo has the final build bundled with Yahoo Mail. FlexBeta is currently hosting Internet Explorer 7 Final without the need of downloading Yahoo Mail. My take: Read about my thoughts on IE7's new interface on my blog.
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Most companies that produce a product sell you something that is intended to help you solve a problem or accomplish a task. For example, a frying pan helps you accomplish the task of cooking food. In the case of IE, the sole purpose of this product is to further lock users into Microsoft products (eg. SharePoint). Providing the customer with a tool to accomplish a task (in this case, view the web) is something they use to bolster their first priority, which is vendor lock-in. You see, the first priority of the cookware model is help the customer do something. The first priority of the Microsoft model is to sell another product. Helping the customer is just something that gets in their way. So, they do as little of it as they can get by with.
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There is only one reason IE7 exists - to prevent people moving away from IE only and Windows only technologies.
Ummm, why else would it exist? If MS didn't have the above as a motivator, we'd all still be using Internet Explorer v1.0. But this pretty much holds true for any business who ends up on top. For example, if AMD didn't exist, we'd all be paying $5,000 a piece for Intel P2-450's.
Thank God for competition