"I sat down with the Windows team today, and they tell me my comments were inaccurate," Leach said Friday.
Hmm, strange that a product manager for Microsoft makes comments about something he knows nothing about
I believe from what I've heard that they won't be making any improvements to the free Internet Explorer (there's practically no improvement since IE5.5, except for security patches and bullshit features). And I believe they will be permanently embedding HTML and eMail engines into the OS.
The only reason they made IE (and OE) free in the first place is to directly compete with Netscape (which wasn't free at the time), and of course, to screw up every version of Win95 by fucking up Windows Explorer (and adding the Active Desktop crap).
Who knows what marketing scheme they'll think up next?