I only manage to use IE until the 6th version. After blogging for nearly 4 months now I have fully used Mozilla Firefox 1.0.6. My impression on IE was that it’s not a good browser. I am guessing that what make it so bad is that it doesn’t support CSS. The CSS I wrote didn’t show or differ from what I had in mind. So when I read Barry Price’s article, I see the title that IE7 fulfills expectations. In a bad way I assume. And I think the word of Barry Price said it all

Disappointed, but hardly surprised. IE’s market share has dropped by maybe 10% overall in the past few years since the emergence of Phoenix Firebird Firefox, but unfortunately I suspect that even given the next apparently bug-ridden release of IE, it’ll still maintain a vast majority share - thus stifling innovation and thwarting the adoption of standards in web development. This is why monopolies are bad folks - good technology suffers, to the benefit of “popular” bad technology…

Coming from a country that filled with many monopoly companies, I must agree with you Barry. Monopolies are bad.