Firefox still faster than IE 7

Or so says former Microsoftie Robert Scoble. Alarmingly, IE was especially slow in rendering AJAX-heavy sites such as Google Maps. So much for Steve Ballmer's vow that the company would own Web 2.0.

Judging from the beta I've used, IE is a big improvement, but still no Firefox. One big problem: IE breaks compatibility with some Web sites. So it's basically the worst of both worlds.