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Today's Micro Persuasion post reminded me that I need to get IE 7 on my radar screen, like now!

I'd heard-tell that IE 7 had a built in RSS reader, and it does, and it's really cool, and the fact that 80%+ internet users use IE and therefore will someday soon be using IE 7 means that the RSS tipping point is upon us.

I've been a bit of an anti-MS snob over the years, but I have to say that IE 7 is beautiful and the RSS integration is remarkable. I'm working hard to make sure that the Goucher site is heavily seeded with feeds so that 7 won't starve.

Trouble is, you can't easily run IE 6 and 7 at the same time. The IE 7 install REPLACES any previous IE instance. This is a problem for me for a lot of reasons. 1) my CMS client requires IE 6. It doesn't work with 7. Major drag. 2) Got to keep testing my work in IE 6 since, for a while, it will continue to be the browser of choice for most of the world.

So, while some developers are continuing to use IE 6 as their main install, I've elected to go ahead and upgrade to 7 and run 6 as a standalone. I found a standalone distribution of IE 6 here: http://browsers.evolt.org/?ie/32bit/standalone.

Seems to work. You're on your own on this one. No guarantees.