Something of note, that I've been whining about for years. Cognos 8.4.1's Report Studio now plays nice with Firefox. It doesn't appear to work with Webkit-based browsers like Safari (even if you change the User-Agent), but at least there's no longer a lock-in requirement with Internet Exploder.

I would love to see a standards compliant Report Studio using open frameworks, but having been in the enterprise software racket, I know how product managers and developers think. Vision, usability and feature excellence usually aren't in their vocabulary. Marketing and Sales drive the feature checklists that make up future releases. Wishful thinking for me.