> You're talking about how IE9 itself could have been improved No, I'm talking about how deeply in the product dubious marketing ideas (such as creating up-sel

> You're talking about how IE9 itself could have been improved No, I'm talking about how deeply in the product dubious marketing ideas (such as creating up-sell opportunities) have been embedded. The problem is that 'IE9 makes use of features available in Vista and 7' is not a justification and is therefore just as bullshit-ridden. There are some ugly truths in this tl;dr that push the burden of explanation away from the dev team and onto marketing. When IE8 came out, Chris Wilson answered similar questions, and a lot of his answers amounted to 'shrug Guys I'm on your side here but we had to limit our ambitions because this is Microsoft and there are strategic decisions that we had no control over.' At least this way we get a sense of what those decisions are rather than get a good cop/bad cop act. (Not to say that Wilson isn't a natural good cop.)