MSDOS

If you have ever played "Return to Castle Wolfenstein" you must have seen as how the Nazi bad guys created the prototypes one after the other and finally came up with something called "Super Soldier" (Uber Soldat). The same is with IE and Microsoft. Till the time they had the Good old windows 98 and windows 5 , things were fine. Then came Windows XP , MOzilla , Firefox and there began a browser war. MIcrosoft is a big time name when it comes to getting "inspired" ( read "stealing" ) from other NON MS softwares. take a look at Vista and Widnows 7 , tehy look like cloned brother of a MAC. Tabbed browsing was introduced with IE 7 after Firefox became a huge success with that feature. MOst important thing is that Microsoft always creates stuff that always suffer from incompatibility issues.... look at firefox , it has been built in such a way that it is easy , fast and reliable ... and then turn your attention to IE8 , i believe too much security constraints have made Microsoft worse ( remmeber the evil "UAC" ) but still the browser that becomes an easy catch for most malwares at the end of the day is "Microsoft Internet Explorer" .....