I ask you this because Google is expanding into the mobile web and Apple, with the help of the iPhone is taking market share from other handset makers.Together they pose a serious threat to the Microsoft way.

However, Microsoft dominates the mobile web in regards to handsets on the market, thanks to agreements with Palm, Samsung, Motorola, Sony Ericsson and others, to use Windows Mobile.

Well, this leads me to Internet Explorer Mobile, which by sheer volume of installations is number one, but with use and appeal ranks dead last. You might be asking, “Why does this matter?”

Imagine, new technology develops to allow you to better interact with your environment through your mobile phone, but you cannot benefit from it because Microsoft did not implement a standard feature in Explorer Mobile, but instead chose its own variant.

It will be the same design and implementation battle all over again. Like the current web, technology becomes available, is adopted and built using an accepted standard, then Microsoft creates a variant, forcing content creators to adopt their method, despite established methods.

Unless Microsoft changes their approach or Apple and Google can outpace them in implementing new technologies and bringing products to market faster, we will be deadlocked or slowed to a snails pace once again.