Here's a quote that caught my eye in The Wall Street Journal's story about Google's new search engine, Chrome.

Dean Hachamovitch, a Microsoft executive who oversees Explorer, expressed confidence that consumers would continue to use the browser. He said Explorer "puts the services [users] want right at their fingertips, respects their personal choices about how they want to browse and, more than any other browsing technology, puts them in control of their personal data online."

And I thought I was a wishful thinker.

Is he nuts? Yes. But of course Microsoft is right to expect a staggering percentage of average users won't sway from the browser built in on their machines. But,I don't have to defend the competition or explain why I could build a more functional browser than Internet Explorer out of a telescope, duct tape and a few sturdy manila folders. For tabs, obv.