Oddly enough, right before I read this article, I went to email my fiance a link to another article. I got the notification for the new compose feature and tried it.

I use IE9 on a terminal server. I'm not quite sure what was causing problems, but I could barely use it. Not everything was showing, and it was just weird.

While typing this comment, I went and checked it again. I LOVE IT. In fact, when I went to send my finace the link, I had to open Gmail in another window so I didn't have to close the email I had open. This works much better. I like attached pictures showing in the email too!