> IE pioneered much of the modern web (AJAX...)! The problem with IE is that it got entranched in the enterprise and couldn't change very easily! Ya, sure, we g

> IE pioneered much of the modern web (AJAX...)! The problem with IE is that it got entranched in the enterprise and couldn't change very easily! Ya, sure, we get to go off and use Firefox and Chrome, but there are literally tons of internal web apps that only work in IE, making IE difficult to change and evolve. This is...overstating things. I really like the belated recognition that the early IE team got for the work they did for the web, but that was 15 years ago. At some point you have to address the intervening years. Meanwhile, maintaining backwards compatibility was a problem IE has had, but is not at all the reason for the pain of almost a decade of IE dominance during that time. "established technologies that IE refused to use" is a fair assessment of at least some of that, although for almost five of those years there wasn't even an IE team to refuse to use standards as it had been disbanded. In any case, as a web developer, I'm for the most part thrilled with Spartan's plan of attack and look forward to seeing it succeed.