Linked by Kroc Camen on Wed 16th Sep 2009 20:06 UTC
Sometime ago I conjectured that Microsoft made certain changes to IE8 to force web standards forward and drop backwards compatibility as default (a very un-Microsoft move) because of the need for the web to break out of the blinkered IE6 / Desktop-Browser view of content otherwise Microsoft would find itself unable to compete in the mobile space. It's been over a year since that article and in such a short period of time it has become ever clearer that Microsoft's mobile offerings, and their overall mobile platform strategy are failing against the dominant iPhone, the newcomer Android, and a re-invigorated Palm with WebOS.
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What I really meant, but said too specifically because I was being dramatic, is "dumping Trident for any of the next-generation rendering engines," all of which have far eclipsed IE by a generation or two.