No, they implement Firefox, WebKit, and Opera workarounds ;)
I think they just call those HTML standards workarounds...
I've had problems with IE6 on live.com and bing, so you may be correct...
I had to implement an IE8 workaround when I worked at Microsoft, does that count?
Do IE developers at MSFT just suck really bad or they don't care? I am interested to know how can they fail so bad when much smaller team of developers like Opera does it so well.
I didn't meet any of them - different part of the company. I was in Office. But from what I hear, IE9 will dispel the notion that they suck...but I didn't see anything firsthand.