This maybe true, but I don’t think a company as large as Microsoft can get a pass. There is no excuse for them not being able to handle a back button properly. They are worth trillions of dollars, run some of the biggest sites on the internet, and defined much of how the web worked for an entire computing era.

They should have their feet held to the fire on this.

Hear, hear.

I mention it not to excuse Microsoft's sins, but to the contrary to point out that malicious intent as a criteria isn't such a good idea after all, when there are such obvious cases of incompetence and malice being practically indistinguishable.