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Microsoft IE Team Sends Firefox A Cake [pic]
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by methodshop | June 18, 2008 at 09:33 am
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Mozilla engineers shipped Firefox 3.0 this week to much praise and accolades from bloggers and tech columnists across the Interweb (except for some initial download issues). But Mozilla also got a strange congratulations gift from their main competitor in the web browser wars... Microsoft.
Microsoft's Internet Explorer development team sent their Firefox counterparts a congratulatory cake for their launch of Firefox 3. The cake was delivered in person by some Microsoft employees and Mozilla CEO, John Lilly, proudly took the cake around and displayed it for his staff before he let them devour the cake.
Mozilla employee Al Billings holds the IE cake.
Apparently this is becoming a tradition. Microsoft sent Mozilla a cake back in October 2006 to congratulate them on shipping Firefox 2.0.
You have to give Microsoft credit for having a good sense of humor about their eroding market share. Recent reports give Firefox ~40% of the web browser market. Not bad for an application that's only 3 years old.
You can download Firefox 3 here.
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at 09:55 on June 18th, 2008
methodshop, sweet treats for the competition -- I like it!
at 10:18 on June 18th, 2008
That's kind of cool... but will they let us see the cake's recipe?
at 11:18 on June 18th, 2008
if you eat the cake you'll prob get a virus and a mouthful of bugs.
at 12:15 on June 18th, 2008
Sure, but if you modify the recipe you may have to give them a copy of the new recipe and have your right to use the old recipe revoked...
at 11:20 on June 18th, 2008
Nice! :)
at 12:20 on June 18th, 2008
Great article.
at 13:23 on June 18th, 2008
Nicely done.
at 13:29 on June 18th, 2008
mmmm..technology cake.
at 15:45 on June 18th, 2008
methodshop, I like this story. It's good stuff.
With the big percent of IE6 out there I wondering if this cake is coming from the IE6 team... it would be out of date!!!
I hope the Firefox team don't suffer of any side effects :D
at 16:35 on June 18th, 2008
methodshop, I like this story. It's good stuff. nothing wrong with a little respect by microsoft. No one likes a sore loser.