It's an open secret that printing Web pages is one of the all-time top Internet annoyances. How many times have you printed a page, only to find that the right-hand side of the page is cut off? IE7 fixes the problem by automatically scaling the Web page so that it always fits when it prints.

Printing has other useful new features as well. Click the Print icon in the toolbar, then select Print Preview, and you'll be able to see a preview of your printout and customize how it prints. You can choose from multiple views, from a single page at a time all the way up to a 12-page view. You can also view each page full-width or full-page, and switch between landscape and portrait modes. In addition, you can choose to print headers and footers, or leave them out entirely.

Good news for enterprises

IE7 offers some goodies for businesses as well as individual browser users. Group Policy can now be applied to all Internet Explorer features, so that network administrators can better control and standardize browser use, and more easily enforce company-wide browser configurations. And in mixed Windows XP-Windows Vista environments, Group Policy can handle both sets of clients simultaneously, making for much easier management.

Of course, not all companies will want to upgrade to IE7 right away. The new version might have conflicts with in-house applications that users access via Internet Explorer. And many businesses already have security measures in place that make upgrading to IE7 for its greater security a non-issue. For these companies, Microsoft is providing tools that can stop the automatic update to IE7 on corporate desktops.