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Microsoft Says Firefox Not a Threat to IE
KillaKen187 writes "A CNET article claims that 'just days after the launch of open-source browser Firefox 1.0, Microsoft executives defended Internet Explorer, saying it is no less secure than any other browser and doesn't lack any important features.' It's also interesting to note that these statements made by Steve Vamos, Microsoft Australia's managing director, come with no knowledge of what Firefox has to offer as he admits not even installing or using Firefox."
Whats this 'Internet Explorer' thing you speak of (google, click).. Oh, I see.. something that only runs on Windows, which I dont use either.
Rendering graphics at all is optional in an HTML user agent. If Microsoft wants its web browser to render graphics, why do the developers go single-buttock about it?
Stop posting that goddamned quote! Holy crap! I've read it like 60,000 times already and I'm sick of seeing it in EVERY SINGLE STORY!
And Moderators, do your job and start moderating these things as "redundant" or something.
Comment of the year
Glad to know we're on F.U.D. step 3 of 3.
Slashdot gets worse every day... Pipedot: News for nerds, without the corporate slant
"They say IE is a target because it's everywhere, ... Why don't we hear about a new buffer overflow or mishandled JPG in Apache every two weeks?"
Apache is trivial by comparison. IE actually opens and loads a wide range of outside inputs including image files, text of different encodings, media files, XML, scripts that it loads and runs, plugins or all types, etc whereas Apache only accepts text input, some authentication blobs, and outputs uninterpreted blocks of data from files or does very basic script execution to bootstap stuff on top (e.g. PHP).
what's the point of useless tag lines like this?
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so wierd...people think that mod points give them near-god like powers...whoop-de-doo
how about evaluating the comments based on the information in the comment and then modding the comment appropriately as a result?
no...that's too difficult
Gekido's Lair
Screw Microsoft. They're all a bunch of sissies.
What's with all the stupid people out today?
He wasn't changing this guys WALLPAPER, He was installing a new web browser which is objectively better.
Objectively, I say? How the hell can I say that?
-native popup blocking
-native selective javascript blocking
-fewer vectors for viruses and spyware
-possibly not targetted as much as ie
-faster rendering
-pipelining
-tabs(may be important or not)
-actual current generation PNG support
-relevant signature system for plugins
People are so stupid they'd forget to breathe if it was possible. Sometimes they need to be nudged by those who know better than them. As I mentioned, this isn't changing the guys wallpaper on him, it's protecting his machine against the same stupidity which undoubtedly brought the machine to his shop in the first place.
It's been a long time.