After using it for the last couple of days I am pretty impressed by the rendering engine, but there is a couple of obvious things that should NOT be hapenning for a product at Version 7. FTP does not work at all!!

The other issue which is very strange is the back button. The history get’s screwed up and and this causes the back button to become completely useless!
For Example:

I type in http://www.nhl.com and check out the hockey scores.

then I type http://www.digg.com and start checking out what’s hot for the day. I click a story that takes me to that site. After I read it, I want to go back to digg, so I click the back button. Guess where it takes me? To Digg.com? Nope! It takes me back to nhl.com! And the history (little down arrow for the back button) for back is not available to select from.

The last thing I absolutlely hate is the interface! It’s terrible. However, knowing Microsoft they are not done with the look at feel (that is how it was for IE 3 and 4’s beta) and will not give us the final look until they release it.

So for now I think its not that useable for every day browsing but as a good tool to test things out.

Today I took the Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) test for Designing a Portal Solution with Microsoft Sharepoint Products and Technologies and passed it!  I was a bit worried because I only studied a couple of hours this morning before heading over to the  local college to take it.

I actually did quiet well!  I passed with a score of 900 out of 1000!  The funny thing is I knew the 5 questions that I got wrong were.  When I was answering the question I kepting asking myself if this was the answer that Microsoft wanted to hear or was it the answer that felt was right based on deploying a couple Sharepoint sites over the years.  As you guess, I made the wrong choice. Next time I need to remember to give the Microsoft answer, even if I feel its wrong!

When you only miss  five or six questions you really want to take the test over again and get them all right!! Oh well!  At least this is off my plate as one of my goals to complete this spring!