Agreed that IE did innovate at its time. "It had everything independent innovation needed to thrive. It just didn’t have any vision for the “open web”." But i

Agreed that IE did innovate at its time. "It had everything independent innovation needed to thrive. It just didn’t have any vision for the “open web”." But it didn't had an open source core and was windows only. The vision was microsoft only (forever). "This was the Microsoft way. You can’t blame them for being themselves. " So the argument is, "yeah, Microsoft is a big monopolist who do everything they can, to lock people on their system, you cannot blame them for it, this is just the way they are"? Either way, in this case luckily their monopol strategy failed and IE died because of it.