I Hate IE8

We have been warned by Microsoft that is on its way. Not sure why we are being warned when really IE8 simply needs to be fixed.... or rather unfixed. Sites that we count on or will count on shortly rely on having functional browsers. IE8 simply is not functional. I cannot even write this blog in it!
I think we are seeing the greed of Microsoft once again rear its ugly head. We the user community are victims of the battle for IT dominance. We see it with the ongoing battle between Apple and MS, and now we are seeing it with Google. IE8 does not work with Google Apps. Surprise, surprise! As Microsoft and Google duke it out for university email and applications services, the campus communities are the ones to suffer. As we recently chose Google for our outsourcing of student mail, we will now have to tell our future IE8 users that they will not have the full functionality and they will have to select "basic HTML" in order to access their Gmail. It is ridiculous!
I prefer Mozilla for my normal Web surfing and blogging. I have to use IE in order to access my work's Exchange email.
Having to maintain several different methods of accessing the Internet gets really old. Sure I have the plug in that lets me switch within one window. But come on!
As a communications professional who works on the Web, I hate having to troubleshoot a single site or feature in all of the various browsers, but I especially hate the ways in which IE is always the one that causes my programmers grief. I want a single, uniform Internet experience and true interoperability. Microsoft, you piss me off.