"If Microsoft intends to pull the plug on IE after version 8, it will need to articulate a clear legacy migration strategy that allows these shops to preserve t

"If Microsoft intends to pull the plug on IE after version 8, it will need to articulate a clear legacy migration strategy that allows these shops to preserve their investments in ActiveX controls and resources. [...] Finally, there's the matter of third-party developers using IE's rendering engine with their own applications. This embedded object is invariably an ActiveX container for the IE engine that's installed with Windows, so any attempt to remove IE from the OS -- or to radically change its core underpinnings -- will need to account for applications that rely on the existence of an accessible, programmable IE object model." Can't they just stop producing newer IE versions and offer minimal support (mostly bug fixes) for the existing ones? This way the internet would have its better standards-compliance and the corporate intranet apps would have their compatibility...