Is it just me, or was there absolutely no content here?<p>Frankly, I'm glad to see MS stepping up to the plate and working towards a better browser. If you don't like IE9, don't use it, but more competition is never a bad thing.
<i>but it feels so incredibly late in the game to improve their font rendering to acceptable, never mind pushing the limits a little.</i><p>Late in the game compared to what? The browser wars are really heating up again! Plus, it's not like the internet is going anywhere sometime soon, so it seems kind of odd to call it "late" in the game.
So he's complaining about both a) IE is bad and b) Microsoft is trying to make it better. I suppose he'd like them to just discontinue the whole thing, then? Not the most likely, or even desirable, outcome.
There is a simpler solution: not worrying about IE.<p>Make your business model in such a way you don't need users who don't know better than not to use IE.