IE8's version targeting will now work the same way other browsers work, i.e. advanced standards support will be on by default. Some people will say Microsoft caved; others, that they listened to public opinion; some may even buy the company's own explanation, which is that, given a company-wide reorientation away from proprietary winner-take-all competitiveness and toward interoperability, "web standards by default" takes precedence over "supporting all those badly made websites that were created specifically to work in IE."