Comments on: Microsoft’s Browser Comparison Chart Offends Anyone Who’s Ever Used Another Browser

By: Stephen Ridgway

Stephen Ridgway — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 07:58:05 +0000

bwabaahahaa *sniff sniff*

By: Wynne

Wynne — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 22:32:38 +0000

More dumbness, from a company of dummies. I honestly can’t believe their non-sense. The fact that they even have a standards compliant browser that even works half decently now is a complete miracle (they must have hired a smart person for that job).

By: anon

anon — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 06:53:06 +0000

I heard IE 8 is so stable it didn’t crash even once while downloading the latest version of Firefox.

By: Brb8two

Brb8two — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 04:23:32 +0000

If you Read ” Myth #4: Internet Explorer doesn’t play well with Web standards. ”

The Explanation of that sections Proves why IE8 is only checked in the “Compatibility” section.

“Internet Explorer 8 is more compatible with more sites on the Internet than any other browser. ”

i.e. websites previously had to be coded for web standard and IE, now it will not have to be and the old version will still work.

By: Rubens Peculis

Rubens Peculis — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 02:24:13 +0000

Simply abhorrent!

By: Mic Cullen

Mic Cullen — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 01:51:59 +0000

Too funny :-)

By: Dylan Bird

Dylan Bird — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 01:07:17 +0000

At least it made me giggle a little bit.

I’ve run IE8 a couple of times when i do a clean install, and always come running back to Firefox.

For the regular, nontechnical user, the chart is misleading enough to keep them from moving to an alternative browser.

By: Stephen Dann

Stephen Dann — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 01:06:42 +0000

1. No love for Safari from Microsoft?

2. Personal anecdote: IE8’s installation mandatory reboot locked up my laptop. That’s not a comforting start for great user experience moment is it?

3. It’s an awful piece of misleading by intent with a case of “Oh, no, the lawyers said it wasn’t misleading” by design. The tick as implication that IE8 is the only one with the feature, not the one with the Microsoft declared best rank. Privacy on Chrome exists, security on Firefox and Chrome exists, and Microsoft is being deliberate and calculated in their attempts to misdirect if not outright mislead.

Which is annoying because if IE8 is half decent, it should get the wraps and reputation from performance. They don’t need to do this sort of nonsense, because all this this advert does for MS is put doubts in the minds of the commentators. Lot of the chat I’ve seen this morning is dismissing the advert, and not talking about the product. Bad message strategy by MS.

By: Stephen Ridgway

Stephen Ridgway — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 22:36:12 +0000

Microsoft insulting users who dare to use another bowser… never, it should read “… arrogant, pompous, self-serving Microsoft…” more like it. IE has been a very disappointing, unsafe product that has FORCED users to use something else… Europe has taught them nothing!