You forget they set the web browser market back a decade, and in doing so held back Linux desktop adoption. It was not that long ago that some important websit

You forget they set the web browser market back a decade, and in doing so held back Linux desktop adoption. It was not that long ago that some important websites, such as bank or government, required IE. Microsoft embraced the browser market, extended it (activex along with some genuine innovatives such as ajax) and then extinguished it by letting IE languish. The technological progress recovered thanks to efforts by Mozilla, KDE, Google and Apple, but who knows how our world might have looked like if Microsoft had not been successful in EEE'ing the web.