Yeah, I'm sure MSFT would be reeeeeeeeeeeal accommodating. I mean, all you're asking them to do is devote development resources into a browser it gives away for free that runs on a competing platform.
They wouldn't rake Apple over the coals, would they? Naah. We all know how principled, fair and forgiving Microsoft has historically been with other companies.
2) be much more active in dealing with incompatibility issues.
There is nothing Apple can do to stop Microsoft from introducing proprietary, non-standards-compliant technology in its browser. There will never be ActiveX for Mac or Linux or other OSen, because it's one of the shrinking number of hooks Microsoft has to keep people on Windows.
Apple is not to blame for Microsoft's inability to play well with others. Apple is not responsible for lazy Web developers who use whatever crap Microsoft throws over the wall, no matter whether it drives away customers, and no matter how many gaping security holes it opens.
But this still does not defeat the concept that IE is needed by a lot of people and a real glitch in using Macs for some people.
I'm sorry that you're stuck using Web-based applications that were created by idiots. That's the crux of the issue, and that's who you should be complaining to.
Creating a Web site for one browser on one platform is, and has always been, bad form. But as long as some Web developers are too lazy to build cross-platform sites, you're stuck with Windows. Sorry, but that's not Apple's fault, and in making it easy to run Windows on a Mac, Apple has done all it legally can.
I am not going to agree or argue with you about placing blame for Web incompatibility - except to say I know AAPL pretty well and they do not give a crap and they could at the margins be helpful - you can trust me on this or not.
But whoever is to blame the fact remains that - for a significant number of people doing important work (i.e. DOCTORs updating patient records, Wall Street guys listen to earnings calls, etc.) YOU CANT USE A MAC UNLESS YOU INSTALL AND USE WINDOWS!!!
That is a fact and prospective Mac users need to be aware!!! THEY COULD FIND OUT THAT THE CRITICAL WEBSITES THEY NEED MAY NOT WORK.
Get it this time?!!!