Kick Google all you want but don't let MS off the hook here...
<blockquote>“When the IE team heard that Google had bypassed user privacy settings on Safari, we asked ourselves a simple question: is Google circumventing the privacy preferences of Internet Explorer users too?” Dean Hachamovitch, VP of Internet Explorer wrote in a blog post...
Redmond had been rather pleased about the fact that it hadn’t suffered the same kind of problems as Apple against Google’s quest for information on users.</blockquote>
Translation: We decided that competing by the technical merits of our product is far less important than getting a dig in at a competitor. So when we heard Apple got away with blaming Google for their crap browser, we decided to take advantage of the opportunity to blame Google for our crap browser too.
<blockquote>"However, if the code is not recognized, Internet Explorer will accept it anyway...</blockquote>
Umm...
<blockquote>Google didn’t do this “in a manner consistent with the technology,” Microsoft suggests..."</blockquote>
Actually, sounds like they did.
For those fond of the burglar analogy:- The burglar rocked up to your house, finds a combination lock on your door. He enters any old code and because the code he enters doesn't match the correct code in the combination, the lock opens and lets him in!