Blame Microsoft - They went for exclusive Windows support and were pretty nasty in screwing with standards to force people there. If they kept with cross-platf

Blame Microsoft - They went for exclusive Windows support and were pretty nasty in screwing with standards to force people there. If they kept with cross-platform support (they dropped Mac IE as of version 5.2...) and played a bit nicer with standards (non MS standards were against their lock-in strategy), I'm sure the market would not have been as fed-up with them . Not talking techies here, just users, if things just worked for most of em then they would have been happy. But as MS excluded IE tech on non MS phones, Apples and other computing devices that access the internet they started excluding themselves as well.