Microsoft comes clean

[hot_pastrami]

Originally posted by Tobiasly
However, I hope and pray that their stranglehold on web development will come to an end through all this. [/b]

It's a self-perpetuating problem. IE is the most popular browser by far, so webmasters design for IE's broken standards. So IE doesn't have to update it's standards support, because the larger public doesn't clamor for it... the websites all function as expected. For the same reason, the larger public is not motivated to try other browsers.

As long IE is bundled with Windows, and the majority of Windows users remain clueless, Microsoft will have the World Wide Web by the balls.