I was one of those poor bastards in a corporate IT department six or eight years ago arguing passionately that the standards were in the RFCs and not in "the way Microsoft does things" and  we shouldn't design the intranet nor buy expensive products dependent on IE 6 nor rely on postback for GET requests nor etc., etc., and I was pretty consistently shouted down.  Any schadenfreude I might enjoy now at the results of one or two particular projects I worked on are overshadowed by regret at missing what we could have done.