when elephants battle, mice are trampled..(cockroaches hide better, and have SO many kids , they don't care if a few are trampled)

As long as the trend towards a few big boys owning all the important parts, (including the phone lines), end user satisfaction will be low on the list of priorities. (remember Ma Bell?).... so far, Opera, K-Meleon, Mozilla, Linux, etc....are projects to keep MS and AOL from controlling it all...will they endure? Netscape didn't, so I won't hold my breath...but they all learned a bit from Netscape.

So unless MS manages to corrupt ALL the standards, until only their browsers will run on their systems, according to their protocols, some, like me, will keep using whatever alternatives there are.

There are some fairly smart folks who do NOT appreciate M$.....perhaps they will at least salvage something.