Shoutbox

Read more: http://slate.msn.com/id/2103152/

(Slate is an E-Zine owned by MicroSoft Network)

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How Mozilla's Firefox trumps Internet Explorer.
By Paul Boutin

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That doesn't say "by Microsoft"

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Originally posted by WDZ
That doesn't say "by Microsoft"

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the site belongs to Microsoft while the text kind of destroys Microsoft's Internet Explorer . Kinda funny actually .

its a statement of fact. Mozilla has built a superior browser, and even microsoft employees acknowledge it.

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Originally posted by KeyStorm
Microsoft owns Slate.

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So? The opinions of one person don't necessarily represent the entire organization. The author isn't even a Microsoft employee, as far as I can tell. http://www.paulboutin.com/PaulBoutin.html

Do you think Microsoft would have deleted the post if they didn't agree with it?

No, but I'm sure Microsoft have they policies concerning Slate and what and can what cannot be said (like any private media).

hink that they maybe really discourage using Internet Explorer while they are developing a better version and think that it would be safer (after CERT's alert) to use another browser. Maybe they just told Bouting to defend Firefox.

If they did it them selves the company could collapse down, but if they tell it through they owned companies it doesn't look so bad.

Maybe Slate was told to write a review of Firefox to let people swap it for critical usage (IE is proved to be inadecquate), so why not?

I'm not claiming MS support Mozilla, but maybe they want to spot people's interest at it while they improve MSIE. They won't get much benefit anyway from Internet Explorer, so they basicly don't care much if the usage percentile falls from 95% to 80%.

Hope you got my point.

Actually, it's probably it's part of their policy to allow the odd free-thinker within their organisation to make the company seem less domination-focused.  Notice it's also an official piece of advice from security experts in response to a specific threat.  It's not saying Mozilla is better, in fact if you read it further it says the opposite.  It is nice to see a personal, conversational face to microsoft though