The cake is a lie: IE team bakes a treat for Mozilla

[Borimol]

In honor of today's Firefox 3 release, Microsoft's Internet Explorer team gave a cake to Mozilla. The tasty treat, which prominently displays IE's blue "e" icon, just arrived here at Mozilla headquarters in Mountain View.

The cake congratulates Mozilla on shipping Firefox 3 and expresses love from the IE team. Microsoft's IE developers also sent a cake to Mozilla in 2006 following the release of Firefox 2, so this is clearly becoming a tradition.

Portal jokes aside, the cake is a very friendly gesture of goodwill. As we have noted recently, the Internet Explorer team could learn a lot from Mozilla. Closer cooperation between Microsoft and Mozilla on standards and web innovation would be a big win for everyone. But until Microsoft gets its act straightened out, Mozilla will be eating Internet Explorer's marketshare in addition to cake.

Via: Arstechnica.com

[EduardValencia]

They should watch for some kind of poison,oh noes....it's a bomb!

[SakuraKira]

Ahah, yes, I also saw this on Ars. Pretty cute IMO. I wonder what kind of cake it is! I'm guessing vanilla.

[+Mystic MVC]

They should watch for some kind of poison,oh noes....it's a bomb!

Sounds like a job for the interns! :D

[EduardValencia]

That's a crusty pastry yellow ring sorrounding the "e" ?

[bloodrain]

I think its the same exact cake...

[murderdoll]

The cake is a lie :ninja:

[That Guy Veteran]

Wow, that sure is nice of them :)

[Imran Hussain]

why is this thread title "The cake is a lie: ...."??? ridiculous!

[Martyn]

Looks like a Costco cake, yum.

I bet it is filled with maggets though ;)

[MMaster23]

They did the same for Firefox 2 .. MS isn't as evil as people like to believe...

In the good old days they trashed the gardens of the Netscape buildings haha. Of course they denied everything haha.

[XerXis]

the cake is a lie? explain the title please ;)

[daniel_rh]

now I want cake :hmmm:

[Denis W. Veteran]

Quite simply, if it weren't for Firefox the IE team wouldn't have their jobs now. Upper management in MS would've kept the IE team disbanded since post-XP Gold. So this could be just a small token of the IE team's appreciation to all those Firefox devs.

[Brad.]

It looks so good!

[AudioDope]

He means it's a lie because IE may not really be "happy" that Firefox has released, they are competitors, so maybe they just do this to show some 'unexisting' appericiation for some benefit we may not know of, maybe sharing things?

btw i bet mozilla does something in return for IE releases.

[Guest]

He means it's a lie because IE may not really be "happy" that Firefox has released, they are competitors, so maybe they just do this to show some 'unexisting' appericiation for some benefit we may not know of, maybe sharing things?

btw i bet mozilla does something in return for IE releases.

Huh? It's a portal reference.

[Tech Star]

the cake is a lie? explain the title please ;)

The graffiti includes statements such as "the cake is a lie" and pastiches of Emily Dickinson's poem "The Chariot" and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "The Reaper and the Flowers", mourning the death of the companion cube.[9]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal_(video_game)

;)

Congrats to Mozilla. :)

[Hurmoth]

I think this is an awesome thing to do. Kudos to Microsoft (Y)

[zhangm Supervisor]

Its a pretty nice gesture, I hope Mozilla returns the favor when IE8 is released. It really is healthier to have friendly competition rather than hostility.

[Nerve]

I think this is an awesome thing to do. Kudos to Microsoft (Y)

+1 ;)

[xpgeek]

Cool cake.

[Scirwode]

The cake is a lie :ninja:

I knew someone would say that :p ! Props to Microsoft for being good sports, I have to say (Y) .

Scirwode

[Xero]

Congratulations on shipping eh? Apple people, get your baking skills ready for the Windows 7 release. We have some irony to fulfill.

[sdfdfgd4444]

Heh, that's a pretty cool cake. :)