Microsoft takes what it wants (Score 1)

Sometimes it is just scary thinking about what Microsoft is capable of.

One doesn't have to look too far back in the past to remember when Microsoft was not interested in the Web... remember using Lynx or Mosaic or early versions of Netscape. Once the Net started looking like it would be a big hit, M$ hopped right on the bandwagon. And today, they have 85% of the browser market???

Either this means that they are making really high quality software that everyone wants to use or they are pulling this kind of strong-handed business that we're used to from them.

But the thing to remember is that M$ is just a company and all they want to do is make money. Despite the best intentions and the sweet words that BG says on TV, they don't really care about innovation. So, rather than moving the capabilities of the Web forward, they are making their own advancements and forcing others to come along with them.

Maybe Supreme Court intervention will make a difference, but I'm not counting on it.