MS would rather not change their codebase at the expense of market lead than to follow the new standard direction. They want to decide their own fate. What

MS would rather not change their codebase at the expense of market lead than to follow the new standard direction. They want to decide their own fate. What makes you think there's definitely ZERO politic in W3C? Semantics? implication of changes? feature creeps? bla bla bla bla bla you'll have Tim Bray. Quit making feature creeps a big issue please. There are two directions for a software such as IE and Firefox: enhance or die. Enhance means more features. Quit adding features = stagnant = die. Take 37signals as an example of "Less is More". Have you actually seen their customer complains? 1 million users.. pfftt, I have 2 inactive (free) accounts there. It's good only for about a week before I ditched them for good.