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m$ have a long history of ignoring industry standards in favour of their own proprietary ones - and succceeding in replacing the former with the latter. it's all about revenue. m$ didn't come to controlpeople the computing world by playing fair.
[to be fair, most people wouldn't notice the problems ... and most of those are cosmetic. but stillstupid unnecessary.]
Microsoft uses invalid code on website in order to make it work with IEit might also be deliberately designed to push people to use m$ie - if they want m$n messenger ...This page [http://messenger.msn.com/Xp/Default.aspx] does not display correctly using Firefox, but works fine in Internet Explorer. Why you ask? Because in order for IE to work, there are over a hundred invalid CSS attributes and 43 non-valid HTML codes. Just goes to show how broken IE is...
m$ have a long history of ignoring industry standards in favour of their own proprietary ones - and succceeding in replacing the former with the latter. it's all about revenue. m$ didn't come to control
[to be fair, most people wouldn't notice the problems ... and most of those are cosmetic. but still
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