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Over 92% of Internet users and businesses worldwide use use it.

Its your little firefox that has to comply with IE standards, not the other way round.

Wrong, and bad logic. There is not such thing as an "IE standard". IE is a "proprietary" inplementation of the international standard. Web developers are not about to develop web sites that can only use IE features. Bad for business and consumers are ill served since Microsoft (and others) don't adequately support the standardized features.

HTML standards are set by the [World Wide Web Consortium], or W3C. W3C is a governing body composed of dues paying members most of whom represent large corporations with a vested interest in the development of HTML and the World Wide Web.

What is the HTML Standard?
As you know, there are a number of companies producing a number of different web browsers. So who sets the standard for what is and isn't official HTML?

There is an organization that does this called the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). They are an international consortium that sets the standards for HTML. So if I was a company that was going to make a web browser, I'd go to their site and find out what the standard was and make sure that my browser could read and interpret everything in the standard.

"Wrong, and bad logic. There is not such thing as an "IE standard". IE is a "proprietary" inplementation of the international standard. Web developers are not about to develop web sites that can only use IE features. Bad for business and consumers are ill served since Microsoft (and others) don't adequately support the standardized features."

Nonsense.
IE has over 92% of the browser market.
There is such a thing as defacto standard and IE is it.
Its like how MS-Dos became the defacto standard for PC operating systems all those years go.
Were there lots of other operating systems?
You bet!
There were over a hundred of them.
The market, finally determined which standard to back, and they backed MS-Dos, same as they backed IE 6 years ago.
Web developers have been developing for IE now for over 6 years.
Its not a matter of "Web developers are not about to develop web sites that can only use IE features"
They already have!
And its been VERY GOOD for business.
Internet commerce, Internet use, every measure of Internet business has simply BOOMED massively over the past 6 years, running on the back of IE, which is the only way over 92% of Internet users do business on the web.
IE has been very good for Internet business