Lounge - Is it just me or does IE 9 suck

I upgraded because I needed to start running things with this newer browser and am not thrilled.  Little things like the tabs being smaller and hard to read because of that stupid gradient as well as the loss of the progess bar.  I hate that missing feature in Chrome and now IE is infected with their madness.

Why are the IE developers constantly just trying to copy someone else?

Perhaps because it is afraid of losing current Market share with other competitors