Making my peace with Microsoft.

Microsoft, and all it entails, has for a while now been something of a faux-pas with many of the more culturally aware members of society.
Its offerings to the software market have become sparse, and woefully inadequate in recent years.. which in a strange way seems to be deceitful as Microsoft were the ones who sculpted the course of the modern computer technology industry all those years ago.

A revolution of computer interface has swept the industry over the past 5 years, championed by a man called Steve Jobs.
This era has brought about computers that will adjust their screens to suit whichever way you want to hold it. Phones that have no keypads yet are capable of doing anything you could ever want from a screen and - crucially - operating software that takes user interface to the next level.

Regardless of ones opinion towards Apple, it can not be denied that their user-interface has been sublime, seamless and beautiful at times, and this is the area in which Microsoft simply have fallen by the wayside.
Internet Explorer 8 is exactly the same as Internet Explorer 2 in that it does nothing more to engage with the users thought process or logic. They simply made the icons smoother.

Internet Explorer will still begin to build a descending wall of unwanted add-ons across you screen at free will and tirelessly seek out the most minute defects of your HTML or CSS coding.