I’ve read all about the new features in Internet Explorer 7 as far as RSS integration goes. What do I think after reading it all? Well, I am happy they are doing it, but I don’t think by any means that they are taking leaps and bounds over what is already out there. Right now it just feels like to me it is one big game of playing “catch up” with the competition. Things are looking good in my eyes, but far from changing my browsing world as I know it. Honestly I don’t know if I want a browser that can do more than one thing.

It is kind of like the old VCR/TV argument. Would you by a TV that had a VCR built in? What if the VCR broke? Then you’d have to get a new TV. I like to have an e-mail client for my e-mail, a feed reader for my RSS and a browser for my browsing. Maybe I just can’t get past the fact that the “File, Edit, View” bar in IE7 is at the bottom. That still bugs me, and I’m sure it will bug me more once I get to using it.

The six hundred pound elephant in the room that nobody wants to talk about though is security. Netcraft’s Rich Miller did an excellent job typing up some security concerns that are out there today. Cool new features are great, but I’m still wondering about some of the “behind the scenes” stuff here. I still have yet to hear how IE7’s HTML and CSS encoding is going to go towards using standards instead of using Microsoft’s version of doing things either.

Want to learn more? Robert Scoble wrote up a good entry with many different views and opinions on the subject. Good place to do your homework and see what other folks have had to say so far.

In all I’d say that I am impressed, but not impressed as I’d like to be.