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A while back, when Vista beta 2 was announced, the IE blog mentioned the "renaming" of Internet Explorer 7 for Vista to 7+.
After a lot of people didn't like the idea, it has now been renamed to IE7.
The reason for the differened names between the XP and Vista versions was mainly to emphasize the differnces between the 2 versions (mostly based on the differences of the underlying OS like Protected Mode, Parental Controls, and improved Network Diagnostics).
The new user-agent strings will now become:
-IE7+ running on Windows Vista: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)
-IE7 running on Windows XP: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1)
For more info, head over to the IEBlog.