This bumped up on the front page of digg.com today:
Microsoft Admits Internet Explorer Mistakes:
Bill Gates admits that he made a mistake in waiting to build new innovations in its own browser technology, Internet Explorer. Now Microsoft is answering that challenge and is already looking ahead to the next two releases of IE…
What? Do they admit slow update on IE? 
To be honest – I still can’t believe that so many still uses that dinosaur browser called IE 6…
I’m currently trying out IE 7 on my Windows pc, but I haven’t peeked much into the features under the hood. Hopefully it is better when it comes to security, but so far the only thing I’m cheering about is the tabs (finally!).