We posted a while back about the pending release of Internet Explorer 7, and what it will mean for us. Well as of last week, Internet Explorer 7 has been released to the public!

This is exciting news, as IE7 is a much more standards-compliant browser than IE6. (In other words, our sites actually look the way we want in IE7 without spending hours of hacking and guessing!) And as “web surfers” ourselves, IE7 is just an all around superior web browser. (It’s caught up with other browsers on features like tabbed browsing, integrated search and news feed capabilities.)

So if you’re an IE user, you might want to download IE7, or be looking for it to come your way automatically next month via Windows Update.

But this is also a good time to consider a web browser that’s been “better” for a long time now. IE users can thank browsers like Mozilla Firefox and Opera for making IE come to its senses!

Firefox 2 was just released today, and it looks pretty exciting. Give it a shot!