EU and Microsoft

Folks in the computer industry have been watching the European Union's case against Microsoft for some time. Mary Jo Foley of Microsoft Watch has a little summary about the case's ramifications on Microsoft over at eWeek. Microsoft has lost the initial case, and appealed it. Today the BBC is reporting that the appeal has been dismissed "in its entirety."

It's hard to argue with Foley's statements. Foley argues that if MS were to pull the media player and Internet Explorer out of the operating system (like every other operating system I've seen, which isn't many), then they'd actually have to have competitive products. Let's face it, Internet Explorer stinks. There's no way around it. The only people still defending IE are the people who haven't tried ANYTHING else. Can you imagine what the Web would be like if web site designers actually had to make their sites meet Web standards rather than just show up right in IE? The Web would actually become what it's supposed to be...platform neutral.

Just a quick FYI, I did a little checking today, and most of the people who check out my blog do NOT use Internet Explorer. Surprised?