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Microsoft Launches New "Get the Facts" Campaign

Posted by timothy on from the grease-monkey-vs.-redmond-rhinos dept.

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.'"

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  1. Two words: Active Directory by tepples · · Score: 5, Informative

    And what the hell does "Manageability" mean? Rate at which the browser is able to be handled or controled? What the hell?!

    I think "manageability" might have something to do with the IT department's ability to control settings on hundreds or thousands of computers in an Active Directory environment through Group Policy objects. Do Mozilla, Opera, and Google provide analogous tools to manage thousands of installations of Firefox, Opera, or Chrome?

    1. Re:Two words: Active Directory by lazyforker · · Score: 5, Informative

      Furthermore it is easy for a competent admin to easily customize and lock down FF. We just started rolling out FF to 10000 PCs globally. We have a Windows PC/Active Directory environment. GPOs were used to force the user's profile locations to be a network share, configure proxy settings etc. For anyone who might be contemplating deploying FF I'd say "Yes - you can use your well-known Windows management tools such as SCCM and GPOs to deploy and manage Firefox. All the settings, configuration etc are very well-documented.".

  2. Re:Can we come up with coherent rebuttals? by the_womble · · Score: 5, Informative

    1) IE8 does much worse at ACID3, so it is less standards compliant.
    2) What IE8 does out of the box covers what a few Firefox extensions do, out of thousands available. Where are Tree Style Tabs? No squint? No Script? Its All text? (to pick a few I like)
    3) Compatibility not that good because there are sure to be lots of sites around that still serve IE7 CSS workarounds to IE 8.
    4) Performance does matter for very javascript heavy pages, which are now quite common
    5) IE8 developer tools cannot match Firefox + Web developer Toolbar + Firebug + YSlow etc...
    6) The others have malware protection. What about MS's generally bad track record.
    7) tab isolation and recovery are not the be all and end all of reliability: how reliable is the rendering engine for example? It is better not to crash than to recover.
    8) Firefox has some terrific ease of use features, as does Opera. The search in the FF location bar, and Opera quick dial come to mind, but there are a lot more.
    9) IE is Windows only, which is also bad for security.