In message , Rob Morley
wrote

Microsoft has done very little innovative development on IE, and
previous "enhancements" like ActiveX have proved to be something of a
liability as far as security is concerned.


Have M$ ever done any innovative development? It appears that, in common
with many large software companies, it finds something useful produced
by a small firm and buys it out.

The original M$ product appears to have just been ripped off
--
Alan