Well, for what it’s worth Internet Explorer 6 has been released, only for Windows so far. This will most likely overwrite your existing IE installation, so please proceed with caution. In fact, for that reason alone I’m likely to hold off on testing it. The only Windows machines I have available to me are at work, and I’m hesitant to install more than I need to, especially since most of our users are unlikely to be using IE6 anytime soon.

Besides, I’m still raging over IE5.5 service pack 2 disabling Quicktime support. In case you didn’t catch that bit of nastiness, Robert Cringely has some interesting observations about it, placing it in the context of Microsoft’s struggles with Sun over Java.