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Originally Posted by toonlight
Well isn't Adblocker based off open sourced software in the first place (source code), produced for FF/others first off, now a downloadable App for IE, you have to pay - sounds fair. <quoting previous posting>
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I have never used adblocker, so I am not familiar with it's history. However, if I read what you posted correctly, it sounded like you were talking about paying for browsers.
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Wouldn't that make the utter drivel IE9 much more appealing to users for other browsers uses? wouldn't you agree stuart?; MS won't see this, as they dig a deeper hole to climb out of from everywhere they release a new piece of software besides still continue to push most of their lame software even now.. 
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Why should MS provide an ad blocker? None of the other major browser manufacturers do. Yes, Chrome, Firefox and Opera do via add ons, but so can IE.
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Lets be frank here; Ms started out good in the days of 3.1, then win 95/98 then till windows xp 7 now windows 7 in-between them times, no thing new or earth moving, just like a stale mouldy loaf of bread rotting away waiting till for the next unwrapped loaf to placed next to it.
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Nothing new? How about several revised interfaces (that have been copied by the open source community)? How about the work the Windows Media team have contributed toward codecs (not only Microsoft ones)? On the contrary, Windows today bears less resemblance to Windows then than most current Linuxes do to the mid nineties versions.
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Where as open software, has moved on leaps & bounds, first free downloadable office software, matching MS own over rip-off priced office package, then O/S software to browser Apps...closed software is never going to work now days with free open software available ready to download & work straight from the first click.
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I wouldn't bet everything on cloud based apps taking over just yet. Look at what happened to Amazon. Look at what happened to the PlayStation Network. Look how unreliable most ISPs can be. Also, while your at it, ask any users of Google Wave why cloud apps may not be a good long term strategy (at least if Microsoft stop selling/supporting office, you can still install any old copies you have and access your docs).
Then remember than Microsoft have proved in the past that if they misjudge the importance of a market, they can move into it surprisingly quickly even if they have to do a 180 with their business strategy to do so (look up the early years of Internet Explorer for an example of this).
I am no fan of MS (I like OSX, but will happily use any OS or software if it does the job I need), but I think they'll be around for a few years yet.