Microsoft once again on the trail of mischief, as the old “get the facts” got hold of Internet Explorer 8.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/get-the-facts/browser-comparison.aspx
If you looked at that and got a head-spin, you are not the only one. First let me note the language the so called “facts” are presented in. One would expect more from the “worlds biggest software company”. http://kilianvalkhof.com/ie8fun/ makes more sense.
Now lets talk about the lenghts MS is going to promote IE8
- First off, a connection of videos http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/videos.aspx that surely cost them plenty
- Secondly, more videos promoted by several celebrities: (for free ? i think not)
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/nethistory/
- Thirdly, they are trying a pure giveaway on a pay per download to charity
http://browserforthebetter.com
$1.15 per download to Feeding America® up to a maximum of $1,000,000
They only want to get 860k downloads ? Firefox 3 got 8mill in 24hours http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/ and Safary got 11 mill in 3 days http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2009/06/12safari.html.
- Hey, if they are giving away loads of money why not give it to the people, eh ? Or at least the lucky fella who will get the 10 grand promised by Microsoft today:
http://www.microsoft.com/australia/ie8/competition/default.aspx
* Hekos expects a banner with ” you just won 10,000$ ”
<Hekos> blinking and all
<Hekos> you can only see it in IE8 cause FX has a working ad/popup blocker
<Hekos> and you cant see it in <ie8 cause it crashes your system
That’s for making me stay up late to debug IE again, M$.
Hey MS what do you think about people just not caring about you ? Fact is, if they KNOW about other browsers, they are using them. If they are using them, they know you are full of sh1t. No add is going to help you. If you want people to upgrade, why not force the upgrade on them with a Update like you always do ?
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4MwTvtyrUQ
Related Links:
http://www.geektechnica.com/2009/06/busting-ie8s-mythbusting/
http://www.webmonkey.com/blog/Taking_Microsoft_to_Task_Over_IE8__Myths_