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Internet Explorer 9 Caught Cheating In SunSpider

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the well-that's-not-nice dept.

dkd903 writes "A Mozilla engineer has uncovered something embarrassing for Microsoft – Internet Explorer is cheating in the SunSpider Benchmark. The SunSpider, although developed by Apple, has nowadays become a very popular choice of benchmark for the JavaScript engines of browsers."

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  1. Embarassing? by intellitech · · Score: 2, Funny

    I would think Microsoft would be used to embarassing by now..

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    1. Re:Embarassing? by bl8n8r · · Score: 4, Funny

      > And their 10-Q definitely indicates that they're not losing money.

      Microsoft added 'optimization' for the 10-Q results as well.

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  2. Re:Microsoft is irrelevant by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 2, Funny

    AC is right on the money there. Open-source software has come such a long way that Microsoft products and business are entirely avoidable these days, and therefore are no longer a threat. Google is the true danger of the age because they're fast on the way to make off-line applications obsolete altogether and render the open-source vs. closed source debate moot, as we'll have to swallow their online applications shenanigans without being able to do a thing about it.

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