er sorta. it has more to do with the fact that most of the IE team (along with the GDI and USER teams) was moved into the WPF team after the release of IE6. b

er sorta. it has more to do with the fact that most of the IE team (along with the GDI and USER teams) was moved into the WPF team after the release of IE6. by that time they weren't really trying to tie the web to Windows anymore, they thought the web was obsolete and were trying to replace it entirely.