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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.'"
Indeed, they're not hard to find, because every time you open a tab, IE is up in your face about how you can use ACCELERATORS and WEB SLICES and whatever else.
I don't recommend you try Chrome, upon opening a new tab you're presented with a page showing your most often visited pages and links.... really what are these browsers thinking, giving us some useful information instead of a blank page or a 404... the NERVE!!
Like the Accelerators - I don't even want them. It's Clippy all over again!
a non-issue, since at install time it asks you if you want them or not. the default is 'not selected'.
And finally - they aren't comparing with Opera. Probably because they won't dare to do it!
no, more probably it is because no one uses opera.
and however bad ie8 is, it's still loads better than safari.
Wealth is the gift that keeps on giving.
Since when doesn't Google spy on you? Since when isn't Apple a religious cult?
I've stopped talking to quite a few of my friends because they were more annoying with their Apple fanboyism than the Scientologists were when trying to get me in for a free reading!
Google drives down my street with cameras pointed at my house. Google does not live on my street, Google is not visiting me or anyone that lives in my neighborhood. Google is not providing me with a service, and they are doing a public "good." Google has no business driving down my street taking pictures of my property for profit, without my consent, and worse yet while NOT sharing those profits with me. My property exists in a community. My community is not open to the public, and you can bet your sweet virgin (you ARE reading slashdot after all...) ass that if we perceived an abundance of inappropriate traffic that we would react quite defensively.
"Be prepared, son. That's my motto. Be prepared." --Joe Hallenbeck
Really? You think Firefox is fast? Faster than IE8? On what planet is that? And also, you need about 8bg of ram for Firefox to open 50 tabs and when one tab crashes, well, you're ass raped.