This is the first, albeit pointless, piece of genuine information
about the next version IE to come from Microsoft despite a sustained
barrage of protest from developers throughout 2007. They want answers
to questions such as: "Will it comply with web standards?" and: "Will
it be compatible with CSS?"

http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2007/12/10/gates_ie8_fire_drill/

What do you suppose, from this rather pointless discussion?

That Internet Explorer is finally going to put right all the faults it
has induced in the co-operative network of international computer
servers called the Internet?

Or more of the same old sludge?

If Microsoft had it's way then all computer development would depend
on coders working on code bases they cannot see. I am not advocating
Open Source, just explaining the obvious.

On this forum, most posters live day to day with much worse things
wrong in their lives than piddling interoperability problems with
computer operating systems.

But it seems to me that having saddled the world with computer bloat,
piracy issues and major bugs, they aught to do their best to make sure
Windows users are less subject to computing problems than most other
system users.

Doesn't that make sense?