I don't want to start any religious feud about which browser is best, but there is one point, that is bothering me a bit.

We have been forced to utilize virtualization in order to test web applications reliably in both IE6 and IE7 on the same machine, which is a pain in my behind. Microsoft chose to release the "Internet Explorer 6 Application Compatibility VPC Image" that allows you to run a IE6 testing environment as a VPC, without getting a license for that second install of Windows XP.

This release is of course something by way of compensation, but to my great astonishment i realize that this image expires on April 1 2007. If you look at some statistics IE6 is still the most used browser - im not sure this is a completely accurate statistic, but that doesn't matter - the point is, that IE6 is still widely used, and we as developers need to test our applications on IE6 even after the VPC expires.

I don't know about you, but I will sure feel like an Aprils Fool when this happens. I sure hope for Microsoft that they release a new version with an extended licence.