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

[what]

They should share it out amongst everyone who contributed to the Download Day :)

[MrChainsaw]

Oh we all know its poisoned!

[zerologic]

The IE Team should be thankful for Firefox. Without Firefox and it's climbing market share there wouldn't be a IE Team ;)

[Impact]

Well, the Mozilla team would only have to give the IE team cakes about half as often if they were to return the favor lol. Internet Explorer seems to have a long time between releases.

[MightyJordan]

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

+1 again. Firefox is becoming a serious rival to Internet Explorer, but they're not trying to force them out or spread vicious rumours or false information (Apple, anyone? :whistle: ). They congratulate them on their success. It was only the launch, but I think it can officially be deemed a success from day 1, thanks to the Download Day campaign. A very smart move.

I'd just like to offer my congratulations to Mozilla for Firefox 3. It's actually pretty good! It's also good for IE, as FF3 is gonna convince Microsoft to put some extra effort into IE8, so everyone's a winner! :D

[Andrew Lyle Global Moderator]

was it this one?

I am pretty sure they did that for shipping 2.0, not 3.0.

[revvo]

.... It might be poisonous!

In all seriousness, that's cool though. Microsoft shouldn't be waiting after the competition to improve its products. Sure that's more economical, or at least you might think and have all your guys focused on other projects but look at this now, Firefox is serious and Opera deserves more attention but not enough PR and Marketing stunts on their side.

[Azusa]

I bet when you get to the good part of the sugar rush you crash.

[Raa]

Picture doesn't work and the link loads wrong, guess I'll have to wait a bit longer :)

Good on them for shipping! I'll be staying with Maxthon though ;)

[redvamp128]

Maybe it is like the road to the super bowl... where all teams play...then it is down to two... then the loser congratulates the winner. (Just Kidding)...I use them both... Mostly use Firefox except on pages like

http://freedocumentaries.org/index.php

Where Firefox playing long files seems to slow down.

Though I think IE would be like a Ford without a Chevy (the competition) Plus they probably feel that people deserve a choice.

that is just my 2 cents...

[Tiger.Girl]

It looks so delicious and moist

[sdfdfgd4444]

It looks so delicious and moist

:D

[MightyJordan]

Plus they probably feel that people deserve a choice.

Agree with you there. Shame the EU doesn't. There's nothing wrong with bundling your own software with your own operating system. That's the point. Apple do this, and no one cares. Microsoft does it, ridiculous fine!

This whole cake thing has me wondering what Microsoft has in store for Mozilla. I reckon they'll try and work with them on the next IE/Firefox and create a new browser, like "Mozilla Explorer" (yes, it's a crap name). Either that, or they might take the easy way out, and just buy Mozilla! :D

[zerologic]

Agree with you there. Shame the EU doesn't. There's nothing wrong with bundling your own software with your own operating system. That's the point. Apple do this, and no one cares. Microsoft does it, ridiculous fine!

This whole cake thing has me wondering what Microsoft has in store for Mozilla. I reckon they'll try and work with them on the next IE/Firefox and create a new browser, like "Mozilla Explorer" (yes, it's a crap name). Either that, or they might take the easy way out, and just buy Mozilla! :D

Behold.. MicroZilla Browser 1.0 :laugh:

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

http://home.snafu.de/tilman/mozilla/stomps.html

The Netscape/Mozilla and IE teams have been pranking each other and such for years, It's definitely a friendly rivalry.

Edit: Yeah, I can't see MS releasing a GPL'ed web browser.

[anonymous_user]

I bet the cake is better than the browser (IE) :laugh:

[Andre S. Veteran]

Either Microsoft is being nice, or sarcastic and condescending. I'd prefer to think they're being nice.

[Cara Veteran]

Think the cake is baked with standard ingredients? ;) I couldn't resist a standards joke at IE's expense...

[M1h4iL]

It's a Trojan cake.

[+vlsi0n Subscriber¹]

THAT looks like a tasty cake. :yes:

[alxz.310]

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

lol thats what I wanted to say :p

[x-scratch]

cake looks tasty but kudos to microsoft

[morphen]

It looks so delicious and moist

Lol ;)

[alphaomegainfinity]

My God I can't believe a cake from Microsoft's stable can have a huge 2000 views in this topic itself.