While Microsoft has debated which RSS icon to use in their upcoming versions of Internet Explorer, Office, and Vista, they’ve gone from designing their own, to now adopting Mozilla’s orange version. 
Knowing that whatever icon Microsoft chooses will end up being the standard, I can only applaud them for taking their largest competitor’s icon and [...]

Internet Explorer has taken a beating this year from  Firefox, partially because of security issues (though most users say they  made the switch initially for tabbed browsing).  IE 7 hopes to draw some users back in with enhanced security features (and tabbed browsing).
In Microsoft’s forthcoming Internet Explorer 7, sites that have a high-assurance digital certificate [...]