IE 7 to have tabs....confusion will abound

Rumour has it that IE version 7, likely to be released this summer, will have tabs like some other browsers:

"Initially, we had some concerns around complexity and consistency… will it confuse users more than it benefits them? Is it confusing if IE has tabs, but other core parts of the Windows experience, like Windows Media Player or the shell, don’t have tabs?"

Yeah. Users freaked when they saw tabbed browsing for the first time in Firefox, etc. 911 lines were clogged for days. It was absolute chaos! And you won't find tabs anywhere in other Windows products, not even IE, when you go to Tools \ Internet Options - nope, no tabs there.....