In summary, IE has been a disaster for the web community save for the XHR spec and something here something there and I can't wait for the day to come not to have to support IE9, IE10 or even IE11.

I'm cautiously optimistic about the Spartan project and I wish them all the best but if the new boss would be like the old boss, that would be the last nail in Microsoft's coffin when it comes to the web standards.