As to Justin's 'cry me a river' remark. Europe doesn't belong to an ex British colony called america. We can make up our own minds on how to do things - bitch lol

"graciously conceded to several HTML5 specifications, including CSS3, Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), XHTML parsing, and the video and audio tags using industry-standard (H.264/MPEG4 and MP3/AAC) codecs, among others"

Wow! all of these are HTML5 specs... I bet that's going to come as a shock to the W3C

Of course, none of these so-called specs are actually specs, so much as working drafts and proposals.

...is of course: The Acid3 Test.

Fail.

Come back when it's fixed.

As has been said, that's quite simple. Options could be presented and the choice downloaded with 100K of code, and that's the way I'd have forced M$ to do it.

And the reason M$ is forced to do this is because of prior crimes.

Gilda Radner used to do similar schtick on Saturday Night Live. Time for you to say "Oh, that's different. -- Never mind!"

I'll be really impressed if h264/aac make it in. That really just leaves firefox as the only holdout. Really bad situation for mozilla if every other browser has h264 built in, considering the licensing etc goes against the open source philosophy. Firefox will still have flash and silverlight but still...

I don't trust MS. Maybe because MS works with the FEDS (NSA) during development to put in the hidden back doors and who knows what else.
Quote: "unveiled the new browser which includes expanded support for HTML5 and hardware-accelerated graphics and text."
MS, from the beginning has never comply 100% with the ACID test. Just like they tried to bastardize JAVA into some proprietary item they could control. IE has never been in compliance and looks like they are going to continue on the none compliance path.
Look at MS and getting a ISO standard for MS Office. Open Office and the .odf format has been a real standard for years and MS counld not stand that so they lied, bribed and who knows what else to twist the ISO Standard committee into buying off on their proprietary piece of crap called MS Office.

So i Would just LOVE it and be TICKLED TO DEATH if to make the EU Happy without the pre-installed IE....Microsoft includes NOTHING. so to all those complaining idiots who don't even know why they are complaining but yet jumping on the "I Hate Microsoft" bandwagon have no clue how to get a web browser on their machine because they have no means to download an alternative because they dont have IE installed to get to firefox.com in the first place! That ought to shut them up but the funny thing is that these people would still jump through the hoops to install Windows because they are too lazy(ignorant?) to learn an alternative but have no problems spewing their Anti-Microsoft jargon! Maybe Charge $5 more for a 2nd disk of “browsers”
I mean seriously, if you HATE IE that much, how difficult is it to just hide the icons and make your alternative browser of choice the default... problem solved!
Last time I checked Safari was put on my Mac and it didn’t ask me? Hrmm and the world didn’t END?

OH YEAH… the EU now requires Starbucks to sell Caribou Coffee as an option at all of their European locations!

Looking Like some substantial Improvements, here.

Keep adding stuff. like How About That Java Script, Ehhhh.

PLUS. Get Own seperate IE9 icon while keeping IE8 in Place.