Alternate title: Internet Explorer created my industry. Say what you want about Microsoft and their products, but you have to admit that we're all a lot wealt

Alternate title: Internet Explorer created my industry. Say what you want about Microsoft and their products, but you have to admit that we're all a lot wealthier because of them. In 1994, when I graduated from school, "computer programmer" was a low-paid position writing accounting software for a big company, with no real hope for advancement. Today, it's a license to print money. I put a lot of the credit for that down to MS forcibly placing desktop PCs in the hands of pretty much everybody, and (debatably with evil intent) standardizing things to the point where you can get all those computers on the Internet. So no, I hold no bitterness for them. IE takes up my time, because it's my job to have my time taken up writing software that works with web browsers. The fruit of that time spent has thus far been a good amount of wealth, and the flexibility to do pretty much whatever I want with it. Not a bad trade, if you ask me.