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CobraA1 Updated - 22nd Apr 2010

"Surprisingly, Microsoft was painted as HTML5
friendly."

IE9 is definitely putting a lot of HTML 5 and
other next-gen technologies in it.

In addition, Microsoft is not only a member of
the W3C, but is actually contributing quite a
bit to it, in particular a large number of test
cases that are designed to test the
compatibility of browsers against various parts
of the standards.

This tells me that Microsoft is pushing hard to
comply with standards. And I'm not just seeing
a catch-up move here, I'm seeing a "we want to
be better at this than the others" move.

"This is a platform war."

Indeed, and I agree. There's a lot more at play
here than a few consumer-facing applications.

I think one thing that people underestimate is
how much this is about a platform, not just a
collection of products.

"But only because Google's business model makes
money off of pushing the Open Web. Tons of
money."

I'd disagree. Their business model makes tons
of money from advertising on a search engine
built around a secret formula. The "open web"
is just a side project that they can use to
pull in more advertising dollars.