"It used to be easier to be skeptical of Microsoft's intentions. After all, IE6 is undoubtedly one of the most hated pieces of software ever to be foisted on the Internet population. Its inclusion as 'part of the OS' in the initial release of Windows XP in 2001 only served to muddy the waters of website development and its widespread adoption-by-default ensured that creating a website that conformed to the standards set forth by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) was useful to about 15% of the people who might actually see it and that your work had just begun..."
