Charles wrote:...while maintaining the level of extensibility and compatibility customers have come to expect from IE. ...
Why does this bother me. What I've come to expect of IE since it's glory days is absolute rubbish! In the days of Netscape 4.7 and IE 5 the choice was clear. But ever since MS killed Netscape they've stopped development on IE. They've ridden out their monopolistic stance and feel like it's time to throw a tiny little bit of bait at the big companies wanting to switch. Even just a new spash screen an version number will be enough for most admins to keep IE instead of dumping it.
Good strategy, but I don't see a real benefit until Longhorn. A redesign is neccesary since IE is part of the OS, if we can really believe that...
