This week the Mozilla Foundation released Firefox 2.0, and that occasion did not go by unnoticed at Microsoft's Internet Explorer team. "The Microsoft Internet Explorer Team sent us a cake for the 
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That's not entirely true: Firefox runs on Windows, so they get the world's 1st or 2nd best browser on their operating system. If somehow someone releases a browser that causes users to switch en masse to a different platform, chair shops in the Redmond area will experience a sudden and dramatic increase in sales.
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RE[3]: The IE Team is grateful...
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Let's not forget this:
http://osnews.com/story.php?news_id=15586
I'm sure there are still those conspiracy theorists out there, however, that can't for the life of them figure out why Microsoft would welcome their competition.
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that strategy will take too long. instead, the icing was laced with a narcotic substance.
so they were expecting the ff developers to space out and make psychedelic skins that would make normal peoples eyes freak out when we looked at the screen,
thats actually a good idea...
space cakes mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser_wars
In October 1997, Internet Explorer 4.0 was released. The release party in San Francisco featured a ten-foot-tall letter "e" logo. Netscape employees showing up to work the following morning found that giant logo on their front lawn, with a sign attached which read "From the IE team." The Netscape employees promptly knocked it over and set a giant figure of their Mozilla dinosaur mascot atop it, holding a sign reading "Netscape 72, Microsoft 18"
http://home.snafu.de/tilman/mozilla/stomps.html
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RE: devs are more mature than their fanboys
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Thom, they are whats called "eye-witness reports"...
now, an eye-witness report will stand up in a court of law unless the aggreived party diputes it.
did ballmer deny it ?
did anyone deny it ?
lack of denial gives weight to the report, therefore it is not unbiased.
but I agree, the chair joke is worn out, lets focus on the main points... ballmers monkey boy dance.
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Ah so that's it; MS mercilessly crushed their competition out of respect
No, they mercilessly crushed the competition because that's what their shareholders expect them to do.
If you want ethics, then invest in a different company, or use an OS with neglible desktop share.
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[b]Ah so that's it; MS mercilessly crushed their competition out of respect
No, they mercilessly crushed the competition because that's what their shareholders expect them to do.
Yeah, that was kinda the point.
If you want ethics, then invest in a different company, or use an OS with neglible desktop share.
I think you'll find that's the case already...
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"...unfortunatly the mozilla team was unable to eat because of a possible vonerability in it that could have given the developers a virus. when the developers asked microsoft for the recipe of the cake to confirm that it was ok to eat microsoft said that that was closed information and if they didnt like it they could make there own..."
FireFox Cake 2.0
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Maybe we're missing the real message here. Marie Antoinette is (some say incorrectly) quoted as saying.. "If they have no bread, then let them eat cake!"
Is this a snide remark about the Mozilla teams finances? Or maybe 'bread' means market share/slice of the consumer pie?? 
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Just Microsoft laughing at them for releasing under a 'major revision' a version that is little more than a re-skinning... Look, we changed how the UI looks!!! Must be a new version...
Seriously, are there any 'useful' features or REAL changes in 2.0 that warrants this new version number, or did they just do the number increase for marketing purposes?
You KNOW when they list 'visual uplift' and 'exit survey' among the new features, they are really grasping at straws.
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For a moment i thought you where talking about IE7 but it turns out you talk about FF2 being just some kind of skin update.
Please try and do some research and then post something usefull because your post makes you look real dumb.
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/2.0/releasenotes/
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There are some nice new features like integrated spellchecking (i only installed the german spellchecking so far, so don't you dare to laugh at my mistakes in this post).
It still is far ahead of internet explorer feature wise.
I guess the cake just shows what i always thought anyway: the guys who do the actual work at Microsoft are your avarage nice programmer you would find in any company.