As you can see from the post on the IE team blog IE7 is headed for final release shortly. It's fun reading some of the comments on the team blog. Clearly some people didn't actually bother to read the post or follow the links to the resources for more information!

I believe IE7 is going to be a great release. Great for Security, Great for User Experience and a Great step forward for Web Developers. We've had plenty of previews over the last year or so to allow web sites to prepare for the release. In fixing some of the issues with IE6 we have changed in a few areas how pages using the strict doctype render which means that pages relying on the incorrect behavior in IE6 may need to be updated to work in IE7. The changes made under the strict doctype make for a more consistent set of CSS functionality that web developers can rely on.

Not only do you want to make sure your site works in IE7. There are a couple of things you can do to make your site work great with IE7 and give users a better overall experience.

1. RSS. If you have an RSS feed the make sure you expose an RSS link on your page so that people can discover and subscribe to it from IE7. If you don't expose a feed on your site then think about doing so as it is a great way to bring people back when you publish new content.
2. Open Search. If your site has a search feature then expose it so the IE7 browser can use it from the browser search box.

Get ready for IE7 now.

Thanks
-Dave