Seriously though, this has been coming for a long time so it should be of no shock that Microsoft is proposing these actions. Should it? They always throw their weight around and they’ll never publicly admit they were wrong (although their actions say otherwise) because they have an army of corporate customers behind them screaming about their ROI!

Incidently these customers are as much to blame as anyone, historically corporate IT policies have gone a long way in determining target browsers and maybe it’s time they realise that their developers didn’t talk about web standards for the fun of it (although I understand a lot of them actually do :))

Oh and one last thing if IE wasn’t so intrisically linked with the OS then ‘average’ IE users would have a choice about the browser they use. As it currently stands MS doesn’t provide it’s users with a choice of which version of their browser to run. At the moment the choice is stay where you are, windows update to the latest version or choose Firefox, Safari, Opera etc. I think that this was a bigger business mistake than branching away from the standards in the first place.

Anyway just my two pennies worth.Take it with a pinch of salt.