Microsoft: IE is out, Firefox 3 is in!

[neull]

Microsoft is going to stop development on Internet Explorer 8 and are going to be switching their focus to making Firefox better (not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing).

Even Steve Ballmer is switching: “I’m going to be downloading it myself, and I’ve told all our employees to download Firefox 3 on Tuesday and instructed our programming teams to start working on making the open source browser better rather than stumble around with Internet Explorer 8,” said Ballmer. “I mean, why bother? Firefox 3 has the ‘AwesomeBar,’ you can’t seriously expect to compete with that, can you?”

http://www.bbspot.com/News/2008/06/m...xplorer-8.html

Is anyone else suprised? I for one, am glad they decided to switch, the only time I use IE is to download Firefox.:yatta:

[1080Peter]

Please.

Don't fill me with false hope.

Oh, man, I'm swelling up now.

[jp.]

Parts of this make me think it isn't real.


Such as, the "AwesomeBar" references. And then a programmer stating that IE8 "fucking sucks".

[neull]

Lol, if this isn't true, I'll be pissed.

[WolverineDK]

That sounds horrible, that MS will try to get their slimy hands on Firefox.

[hujang]

Agree with teh previous poster, hope they wont ruin it if its true.

[sflynn]

You guys think one of the biggest companies in the world is going to give up on a product that made them "THE" software company. This has to be a hoax, no way around it.

Has to be a hoax, check out the other crap on that website. People using catapults to get to work instead of cars....

http://www.bbspot.com/News/2008/06/t...commuting.html

Too funny.

[PhreQuencYViii]

New Opera version is out...fuck the other two.

[Taucias]

I prefer IE, which I consider far superior.

[mairsil]

The comment about salvaging Vista proves that this is fake. Regardless of reality, no corporate executive would make a statement like that about a currently shipping product.

[Barc0de]

screams fake. If I don't see it on MS' official news , I m not buying it.

[PrOfUnD Darkness]

heheheheh

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[graciano1337]

hilarious!

EDIT: also in Tech News http://www.bbspot.com/News/2008/06/t...commuting.html :D

[opethfan]

BBspot is to tech what the Onion is to world news.

[kammedo]

Microsoft is going to stop development on Internet Explorer 8 and are going to be switching their focus to making Firefox better (not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing).

Even Steve Ballmer is switching: “I’m going to be downloading it myself, and I’ve told all our employees to download Firefox 3 on Tuesday and instructed our programming teams to start working on making the open source browser better rather than stumble around with Internet Explorer 8,” said Ballmer. “I mean, why bother? Firefox 3 has the ‘AwesomeBar,’ you can’t seriously expect to compete with that, can you?”

http://www.bbspot.com/News/2008/06/m...xplorer-8.html

Is anyone else suprised? I for one, am glad they decided to switch, the only time I use IE is to download Firefox.:yatta:

Im not sure if this is that good. The next step they will purchase Mozilla and there you go :(

[Bramsworth]

Im not sure if this is that good. The next step they will purchase Mozilla and there you go :(

Did you not see already that it's a joke? :lol:

[kammedo]

Did you not see already that it's a joke? :lol:

xD now I have :lol:

[neull]

Ah, stupid fake news sites. This was actually believeable, unlike the onion. Ah, well.

[CrAzY]

I prefer IE, which I consider far superior.

YAY! Finally someone that agrees with me...
(If your not being sarcastic that is...) :dance: :lol:

[ASSEMbler]

I hate how much memory firefox uses.

512Mb??? Seriously it's just a frigging browser...