&gt; <i>Are you suggesting some other consequence of this case, leading to stagnation of IE development? I can&#x27;t see any...</i><p>I can&#x27;t directly see any either because I don&#x27;t know anyone at Microsoft, least of all on the IE team.  But I think the coincident pause in IE&#x27;s evolution is undeniable.  As for a cause and effect link, that&#x27;s just conjecture.  To me, it seems likely that there were either formal business decisions that reduced the effort expended on IE or at least a psychological block that had much the same effect.<p>Look, I am a Mozilla partisan through and through.  I&#x27;ve been using Netscape, then Mozilla, then Firefox for years.  So in many ways, I applauded the outcome of the United States vs Microsoft case.  But to consider the case as one of only upsides and no downsides seems a bit narrow minded.