[ceejayoz]

> Posts like this claiming they are cutting-edge will enable to once again take control of browsers and once they are at the top, they will start playing their monopoly game.

Microsoft employs smart people. It has become clear that long-term, that approach simply doesn't work. There are legal consequences to being an abusive monopoly, and on top of that we've seen that the software ecosystem routes around the bottleneck pretty rapidly.

[blibble]

I dunno, it seemed to work pretty well.

if they hadn't undermined themselves by developing XMLHTTPRequest I wonder if we'd still be on Windows using IE

[ceejayoz]

It worked well for a while. Then the DOJ nearly broke up the company, IE6 became a pariah, and they've had to spend the last decade rebuilding trust.

People will be more wary in the future, as well.