Re:Two important questions... (Score 1)

IMHO, MS killed innovation by not conforming to standards. I like to dabble with webdesigning myself and it just is a pain in the digital ass that everytime my sites look good in firefox, validates to the standard I wrote it for (usually xhtml) and then open it up in IE... Then add a few megs worth of workaround and ie-only hacks to make it look sort of the same. So yeah, by getting IE 'up to standards', devellopers get more time to make the cool stuff, thus innovation on the web.