Another insightful piece on the same painful subject of IE and the costs of vendor monoculture. The IE debacle is an important forebearer of what's to come for those who hope this is simply a storm in a tea cup. It isn't inconceivable that a Longhorn upgrade wouldn't be pitched as the way out of this deepening dysfunctional-web quagmire. Unfortunately many will bite if history and current mindset is a barometer :-(