> I am a web developer and over the years I have suffered a lot and wasted a lot of time just because the different IE releases did not conform to the existing

> I am a web developer and over the years I have suffered a lot and wasted a lot of time just because the different IE releases did not conform to the existing web standards. But the linked paper has absolutely nothing to do with standards. It deals with the speeds of different JavaScript engines and how representative speed benchmarks are of real web sites. > It just doesn't feel right when MS try to convince the JavaScript community about something As I said, it's best to look at MSR as a separate company. I spent a few weeks there a month ago, and the atmosphere is much more that of a university research lab than a software company.