Microsoft aided and abetted many database providers to make crappy "out-of-the box" (IE6 dependent) relational and content managing systems for small and large companies. Many of their "features" were just integrated browser components, Outlook components, and other MS products wrapped in a pretty shell made of sloppy code and macros. The people that sold them wrote more of the DB as they went along then they did before implementation and made a killing on "hourly support" after they convinced these same managers they could cut costs by buying cheap. Now they can't afford to update without looking like idiots. In many cases the data can't be migrated at all without a huge amount of effort.
That said, I think anything that lets people migrate away from IE (any version) is a good thing. Software with specific browser dependencies are just a bad idea.
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