Welcome to the forum Stephen
Hmm, interesting view on the topic. You certainly seem to know a lot more about such things that I do. I truly hate the concept of a single company having some sort of control over the internet. Adobe already has that with Flash, but at this stage at least they are simply providing a service which happens to be very popular. Microsoft on the other hand has the power to force feed such services down users throats (IE) and consequently can seriously negatively affect the quality of the internet (IE) as a whole.