By Kendall Grant Clark, XML.com
I now find myself with a wealth of choices, not only on OS X -- where I use a freewheeling mixture of Mozilla, Safari, and Firefox daily -- but also on Linux. Windows users who continue to use Internet Explorer fall into one of several camps: they either don't know or don't care about web standards and compliance thereto; or they can't tell the difference between a bloated piece of software and a quality piece of software; or they can tell, but that difference is of no importance to them. If they don't know or care about IE's many defects, why should I? Because there are so many of them! In the ideal world technology standards would unify, rationalize, and perhaps create new markets. While this kind of positive benefit is sometimes achieved by bodies like ISO, W3C, and OASIS, in the real world, given Microsoft's total domination of desktop computing, that its browser does not excel ends up being not only a pain for users but also a pain for developers and publishers.
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2004/06/16/deviant.html