Microsoft: Please Discontinue Internet Explorer

To Microsoft Corporation:
Please discontinue your Internet Explorer product.

It is a bad product. It's bad for the internet as a whole. It is bad for your customers that use it. There is no upside for it's continued existence. I don't believe your company has the competence to make a standards-compliant web browser. Do the entire world a favor, and save yourself some money at the same time...

Please discontinue Internet Explorer.

There are so many great web browsers out there. Yours is not one of them. Discontinuing Internet Explorer, and forcing Windows users to download one of those many great standards-compliant browsers, will be like taking the handcuffs off the internet. Or like cutting the chain to the internet's anchor.

Let the internet be free, let it grow and expand. Let it invent new technologies, and use those technologies to the fullest. This can not happen while Internet Explorer exists.

Please discontinue Internet Explorer.

The world will thank you.