IE7, IE8 and web standards

Came across the following on David Alison's Blog regarding the up and coming ie8 release. Great article to help understand what's going on. 

For me the IE7/8 and web standards debate is part of the reason I think its time to move away from HTML/CSS/Web browsers/domain names/Google etc and to look at building client side personal internet information managers - i.e. personalized environment for connecting, managing and accessing information on the internet.

This could be a client based tool that would would offer a consistent display/manage rich content/use binary transfer protocols to allow interactivity and QOS management, it could be based on using webservice style data servers (binary not http) as well as location and personal identification/authentication management services etc.

Time to retool and change the way we work, we are currently building on a swamp of standards and for me its holding the development of the internet up.