"There will still be a lot of proprietary innovation in the browser itself so we may need to have a rendering service," Ballmer said, adding, "Open source is interesting. Apple has embraced Webkit and we may look at that, but we will continue to build extensions for IE 8."So, even if Microsoft adopts WebKit, it'll make sure that it wont be compatible with other WebKit browsers. Since WebKit is licensed under LGPL and BSD-like, Microsoft can add its own proprietary 'features' on top of it.
A lot think it is Microsoft’s incompetence that is keeping IE from catching up to the other browsers, but in fact Microsoft is deliberately making IE incompatible with other browsers to lock-in people to their OS, or that was their plan initially. It goes all they back to the 90s when Java+Netscape was 'supposedly' threatening Microsoft's desktop monopoly.
Why do you think people are going through the troubles of trying to run IE on Wine, I certainly do on OS X, but not because I love IE, but because there are a number of sites that are designed around IE bugs and don’t work with other browsers.
Microsoft has no intentions of bringing fast JavaScript to IE either, it wants to push Silverlight instead and keep locking people into Windows. Currently they are pushing Silverlight as ‘cross-platform’ but wait until they kill Adobe’s Flash. Just as they did with IE before, once they’ve killed Netscape, they’ve stopped releasing IE on other platforms, and even then it wasn’t 100% bug-compatible with the Windows version of IE.
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