> How does microsoft benefit by offering IE at all?  It's free.  Updates
> are free.  It costs them bandwidth for downloads and updates.  It costs
> them staff time to code, fix, patch, etc.  and they don't get a dime off it.

So they can dig everyone deeper into the proprietary Windoze OS, instead of
any stand-alone or open source architecture.
 
> So why not support some standards :p

Because they've never played by anyone's rules except their own. Why start
now? There is no apparent need as they see it given their market
penetration...

Wayne


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Wayne Godfrey
President, Creative Director
Outgate Media, Inc.

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