Star Microsoft Launches "Get the Facts" Campaign for IE8
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 18th Jun 2009 20:36 UTC
Internet Explorer With Internet Explorer 8 out the door, Microsoft is trying to capitalise on its latest browser release with a marketing campaign outlining several benefits Internet Explorer 8 supposedly has over Chrome and Firefox. The campaign is titled "Get the facts", so I guess most of you will know what will come.
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lemur2
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2007-02-17

"If one is a TV station in the business of broadcasting TV signals into a public arena, it most certainly is a legal requirement to ensure that your emitted signals are fully compliant to official standards so that television sets made by ANY manufacturer are able to correctly and fully render your signal.


This has absolutely no bearing at all on what we're discussing. "

Oh yes it does. Very much so. Microsoft are desperately trying to make it necessary for people to have to use a Windows desktop in order to be able to have what Microsoft would describe as "a full Internet experience".

The web standards that Microsoft are refusing to implement can equally well deliver "a full Internet experience" ... except that they can deliver it to any platform at all.

My previous post has details:
http://www.osnews.com/permalink?369352

Edited 2009-06-19 12:23 UTC

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