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Jon, you simply have no idea what you are talking about.
AOL might be big in America, but it's insignificant everywhere else and with good reason - it's browser is based upon the most insecure of them all - Internet Explorer, and it's content provision is laughable.
Now: "why would Microsoft want to make its browser WC3 compliant?" this is possibly the most stupid question I have ever heard in Talkback.
For a start it's W3C not WC3 - furthermore it is essential to adhere to standards to ensure everone can enjoy the web regardless of disability or platform.
Then you say:"For the vast majority of people Microsoft isnt just a big player on the internet it IS the Internet"
Microsoft HATE the internet, they always have because it's out of their control. Gates famously berated it in 1993, round about the same time MS were trying to set up their own controlled version of the internet called The Microsoft Network - remember those irritating icons on your windows '95 desktop inviting you to set up MSN?
MSN is nothing but the bastard offspring of an earlier attempt to control 'an internet'.
So to say MS IS the internet is in complete contradiction to the truth.
At every turn MS have tried to hamper the development of the internet from the Java sabotage to HTML sabotage right through to web standards sabotage. Ask any web designer how easy their job has been over the last few years, they'll say something like this:"It would be a piece of cake if it wasn't for Microsoft and blinkin' Internet Explorer."
Jon - I'm sure you'll post back here having a go at me with some more of your meaningless durge - I don't mind, just try to educate yourself a little on the subject first. By the way, the command line is alive and well thank you.

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