Well... I would argue that they "packed up" after they "lost", legally (to Netscape, who was no hero at the time), not after they "won". Here is a comment I wr

Well... I would argue that they "packed up" after they "lost", legally (to Netscape, who was no hero at the time), not after they "won". Here is a comment I wrote many years ago going into some oft-ignored background (pre-IE 5) on Microsoft vs. Netscape and extending web standards. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5718968 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5718968 And here is a talk I have at a conference a couple years ago that delves deeply into the timeline of the end and the downfall of Microsoft. https://vimeo.com/310654342 https://vimeo.com/310654342 Honestly, the web has always been filled with lots of broken promises and broken dreams and almost no one was ever incentivized to act in its best interests :(.