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5 pointsby barredoabout 13 years ago

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skoreabout 13 years ago
I really don't enjoy my own snark here and hating on Microsoft is still damn popular, but - So Mozilla and Chrome go for things like the HTML5 MMO and Microsoft goes for the "creepy thing that seems to pull stuff from my facebook account"?<p>And then it links to <a href="http://www.beautyoftheweb.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.beautyoftheweb.com</a>, where clicking "why internet explorer" shows me a page that compares IE10 to FF7 and, by visual percentage of the site, most of it is about Security FUD. Oh, and it is totally integrated with the new Windows taskbar, so they try to differentiate themselves on features that their competitors can't possibly get at that fast. Also - totally relevant for me on Linux.<p>But hey, it's 25 times safer and apparently eats malware for breakfast. You know, the thing that I haven't heard of since I switched to Firefox and then Linux 8 years ago.<p>Clicking on "for developers" greets me with "More standards. less hacked-up code." - Thanks for reminding me of the years of burning hatred I had for you. All Microsoft Marketing <i>can</i> do these days is offer reparations, hm? Why not spend all that money straight away on paying people to go with IE? Would surely give you a better conversion rate than trying to woo developers who <i>grew up learning to hate you</i>.