Going through my aggregator this morning I found a link to Bryan Bell's web page where he comments on IE a few times.

I personally feel that IE has now taken Netscape 4's old position as the boat anchor being dragged behind the internet. So yeah lets start a badge campaign to complain about the lack of development/innovation in Internet Explorer. [Bryan Bell] [via Scripting News]

There's some nice notes in the comment for that post also. He also points some interesting points to do with IE no longer being standalone:

If IE truly does become an OS-only product, then the common web request of “Please upgrade your web browser” will become completely irrelevant. Instead, web developers will have to politely ask, “Please get in your car, drive to Comp USA, and purchase the latest, greatest version of the Windows operating system.” Ass-backwards technological progress. [Todd Dominey] [via Bryan Bell]