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Microsoft pays yes men to spread more FUD about Firefox, Chrome, and Opera
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| Since Microsoft cannot promote IE on it’s own merits:
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| They have apparently paid for another biased opinion from a bunch of spin
| doctoring suck ups, to try and do damage control on Internet Explorer 8, the
| slowest and most brain damaged browser on Windows in a fair benchmark
| conducted by myself, comparing IE 8’s (lack of) performance compared to it’s
| competitors.
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http://izanbardprince.wordpress.com/2009/05/17/microsoft-pays-yes-men-to-spread-more-fud-about-firefox-chrome-and-opera/
Recent:
Microsoft criticized for aggressive Internet Explorer updates
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| Microsoft continues to make it all too easy for even tech-savvy PC users to
| dump Firefox or Opera and make Internet Explorer 8 their default browser,
| complains Hakon Wium Lie, CTO of rival browser maker, Opera, which is popular
| in Europe. Lie is particularly peeved that Microsoft continues to label IE8
| as a "high-priority update" in Windows Update, (see link) despite widespread
| criticism about the finer points of how Microsoft actually delivers this
| update.
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http://blogs.usatoday.com/technologylive/2009/05/microsoft-criticized-.html
Can I Recommend Internet Explorer 8? Should I?
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| So I suppose these e-mail exchanges will continue. Maybe the "endorsement" I
| should deliver for these updates goes something like this:
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| "I tried this update on [at least three, ideally five or more] computers,
| none that I knew to have any existing software problems, and saw no issues
| with it. If you have kept yours in proper working order, you should be fine
| too. Unless you're not. This is the chance you must take running Windows, an
| aging operating system that can get pretty fragile in daily use. If you don't
| like that risk, you need to use a different operating system."
|
| Too harsh? Too depressing? You tell me.
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http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fasterforward/2009/05/can_i_recommend_internet_explo.html?hpid=sec-tech
EU to oblige Microsoft to offer competitors’ browsers
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| The European Commission will require Microsoft to give users of its
| ubiquitous Windows operating system the opportunity to choose between
| different Internet browsers to avoid breaching EU competition rules, the
| bloc's antitrust spokesman told EurActiv.
| Background:
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| Although the Commission is still officially waiting for a response from
| Microsoft to the complaints raised last January, the outcome of this new
| battle with the IT giant is already taking form.
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http://www.euractiv.com/en/infosociety/eu-oblige-microsoft-offer-competitors-browsers/article-179602
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