The problem was that it was bad, in the ethics sense of the word. IE was an attempt to aggressively eject the competition and kill the open web. When the web s

The problem was that it was bad, in the ethics sense of the word. IE was an attempt to aggressively eject the competition and kill the open web. When the web stubbornly refused to buy into IE-only technologies, it became Microsoft's dog in the manger, holding back the day that web apps made the OS irrelevant. It was good, technically, and then it was bad, technically, but it was always always evil.