Microsoft Hilarity Ensues

You can tell the the folks at Microsoft have totally lost it. It looks like they're planning to ship out IE 7 to all users via software update. Now keep in mind, my Mac loving friends, that in Microsoft-land when the big MS hands down an update your computer complies -- resistance is futile. Well unless you're behind a big giant firewall, but even then it's iffy.

This means that the large majority of Web users will wake up one morning and be using a totally different browser. Wow. That's going to be a fun IT day.

Don't get me wrong, I think IE 7 is a big step forward for our slow-learning friends from Redmond. I think some of the features will bring it up to pace with the rest of us who have been happily viewing PNGs and don't really know how to surf without tabs anymore.

But the devil is in the details. And the details of all the browsers are different. Which is why tons and tons of web sites have browser specific CSS/HTML/Javascript, etc. And my guess is that some of that code, somewhere, might just misbehave a tad. Now replicate that effect a few million times and... hilarity ensues.