The browser is not important anymore -- "I think that Microsoft is phasing out the development of the browser because they think it is no longer important for them as makers of a front end platform, and a back end platform." (Comments: Interesting thought, but too discrete. The web browser will be important for a very long time. However, it might become less important over time. It might gradually go away or die, but that time is not now. Oh, and for what it is worth, most people are clueless about Longhorn, RSS, .Net, Mozilla, CSS, and so forth. Buzzwords. Technosalad.)