During the late 80’s M$ was running the browser wars. Doing the best it could to destroy the competition. It finally became evident that M$ had buried the competition. After that almost no development in advancing the security and features of IE occurred. IE stagnated while the spam and malware industry had a field day. Those pest industries are still having a field day with IE but it’s gotten better. FF and other browsers continued to improve as they went.

In typical fashion M$ came out with IE7 finally. Their main reason for the tabbed browsing feature was it was a highly desirable feature that people were demanding and only finding in other browsers. M$ is being forced back into attempting to improve IE because of the competition. The IE browser languished without much in the line of improvements for 15-20 years.

The M$ monoculture is wearing thin at a lot of places. Between cost to relicense and the lack of basic security in the default setup, people are getting fed up with the constant hassels; so are businesses and corporations and governments. You are hearing more of this every day it seems. The M$ black suits are kept busy trying to stem the tide.

We haven’t seen the end of this revolt; it’s just starting.