[erichocean]

> The problem with IE that made people come to hate it was that Microsoft broke the standards, left them broken for years and years and refused to implement anything new.

I always thought that was because the DOJ went after them. And MS said, roughly, "You don't like IE? You think it's 'bad' for everyone? Well, fine then. We won't touch it. See how you like that."

Point being, I think we were stuck with a shitty IE for so long primarily in retaliation for the Justice dept.'s anti-trust suit.

But that's entirely conjecture...