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Microsoft Launches New "Get the Facts" Campaign
ko9 writes that Microsoft has re-launched its "'Get the facts' campaign, in an attempt to promote Internet Explorer 8. It contains a chart that compares IE8 to Firefox and Chrome. Needless to say, IE8 comes out as the clear winner, with MS suggesting it is the only browser to provide features like 'privacy,' 'security,' 'reliability.' It even claims to have Firefox beat in 'customizability.'"
now give me the story!
~Once you have your choices narrowed down, the rest will fall into place.
Sure, Firefox may win in sheer number of add-ons, but many of the customizations you'd want to download for Firefox are already a part of Internet Explorer 8 -- right out of the box.
Those Grapes are Sour ANYWAY!
And nothing is worse than this one:
Web Standards
It's a tie. Internet Explorer 8 passes more of the World Wide Web Consortium's CSS 2.1 test cases than any other browser, but Firefox 3 has more support for some evolving standards.
Did you hear that? Because my head just fucking exploded.
And what the hell does "Manageability" mean? Rate at which the browser is able to be handled or controled? What the hell?! And their little quip for this one:
Neither Firefox nor Chrome provide guidance or enterprise tools. That's just not nice.
You know what's not nice? Having to write in my freaking javascript if(IE){ do tons of fucked up shit } else { everybody else's predictable behavior }. You know what else isn't nice? The scourge of websites that will forever taint the web because you couldn't get your shit together for IE6 and then you let it fester for years.
I am so done with internet explorer in any form. This ridiculous campaign is just here to piss me off. Microsoft has no one to blame but themselves for making me jaded and opposed to any form of IE.
My work here is dung.
I can't find it in the repos.
With FireFox, only the user can customise the browser. With IE, any remote attacker can as well!
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... you keep on using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Actually, the 'customizability' advantage comes from the fact that IE can be quickly customized by third parties, online, in real time and without even needing to notify you.
Yes, Mozilla is lying.
They put a tick next to "Compatible with modern Web pages and technologies" for IE.
Tell that to my 5th Xbox 360!
You speak truth, my friend. Several months ago, I begrudgingly bought a Microsoft wireless mouse/keyboard combo, because - get this - it was the only set stocked at The Warehouse (New Zealand's Walmart) that played nicely with linux.
Now, I dual-boot Ubuntu and XP. The pure gold part is that roughly 75% of the time, XP doesn't recognize the hardware at first and I have to piss around replugging the USB cable, pressing the connect button and watching tiny green flashing lights for ten minutes before I can log in. When I boot Ubuntu, it just works.
So it becomes clear, the reason that Microsoft's software is second-rate is that it wasn't made to run on linux.
This post was made in complete sincere seriousity; as such any attempts to derive humour are doomed to instant failure.
Microsoft Launches New "Get the Facts" Campaign
'Microsoft Launches New Get the "Facts" Campaign' There, fixed that for you....
I pirated my WIndows lunch bag.
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