Microsoft sends flowers to IE6 funeral

http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/archives/196608.asp

by geuis • 16 years ago

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allenp• 16 years ago

Nice chance for some free advertising there. Maybe they should kill their software more often?

In spite of all the hate IE gets, I have to concede that their developers are rather decent people. I'm sure the cake [1] they sent to Mozilla was a gesture of honest goodwill.

[1] http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=24004

Locke16893• 16 years ago

In spite of all the hate IE gets, I have to concede that their developers are rather decent people.

Of course. Some Microsoft people may even frequent HN. ;)

jf• 16 years ago

We do. :D

olliesaunders• 16 years ago

Yeah, I'm pretty sure Microsoft is full of great people, it's just that crazy CEO of theirs.

makeramen• 16 years ago

I'm surprised the IE team hasn't made more progress considering the easygoing attitude they express with these antics including that cake they sent to Mozilla for FF3. I guess being fun doesn't necessarily mean your software will be too.

smackfu• 16 years ago

Wasn't the IE team essentially disbanded for a couple of years?

ErrantX• 16 years ago

Im not so sure; IE8 has it's gotcha's but it's a pretty solid piece of software. I dont mind using it.

locopati• 16 years ago

Easy for them to laugh - they don't have implement IE6 workarounds.

zaatar• 16 years ago

That's what you think ... :)

code_duck• 16 years ago

I've had problems with IE6 on live.com and bing, so you may be correct...

tlrobinson• 16 years ago

No, they implement Firefox, WebKit, and Opera workarounds ;)

MikeCapone• 16 years ago

I think they just call those HTML standards workarounds...

endtime4• 16 years ago

I had to implement an IE8 workaround when I worked at Microsoft, does that count?

pavs• 16 years ago

Do IE developers at MSFT just suck really bad or they don't care? I am interested to know how can they fail so bad when much smaller team of developers like Opera does it so well.

sidmitra3• 16 years ago

I still think buying Opera, and adopting/adapting would be a good thing for Microsoft. It would give them a major playing hand in the mobile browser market too.

From Opera's perspective, they might gain a lot of users overnight, which may or may not be a good thing. But i do think Opera as a browser is the neatest, most feature-rich and yet unbloated piece of software i've seen. And they deserve a bigger desktop market share than they currently have.

daeken• 16 years ago

I strongly doubt that will ever happen due to fears of additional antitrust complaints. What I think eventually will happen, however, is that they put their support behind Webkit. Wishful thinking perhaps, but I don't think it's outside of the realm of possibilities.

cmgarcia• 16 years ago

Upvoted solely for having the same wish. Some may say I'm a dreamer.

NathanKP2• 16 years ago

I'm sure they will eventually. However I fear that just like with a lot of other Microsoft implementations the IE Webkit will be bloated, processor intensive, and generally a painful thing to use.

planettrash• 16 years ago

I like my Opera as it is thanks.

sidmitra3• 16 years ago

Yeah, i'm not saying the MS change the product dev/team thats behind Opera. I would just look at it as a brand re-building exercise. It doesn't have to be revenue generating, but MS needs to get some developer goodwill behind them.

Buy stake in Opera, maybe adopt it as a default browser, but i would definitely leave the dev process alone. But judging from how large companies act, dreaming this is just silly on my part.

vl• 16 years ago

I really don't see the reason for them to acuire Opera. They should calm their egos and just use Webkit like Google and Apple do instead of wasting innumerable resources on new layout and rendering engine for IE8/IE9.

bad_user• 16 years ago

And then what? Have a committee that standardizes Webkit and talk about what features are in and what features are out?

No thanks, I'd prefer them to keep their own fucked-up engine that slowly loses market-share.

sidmitra3• 16 years ago

Opera is the most popular browsing platform on mobile devices. That maybe one of the reasons.

Microsoft sends flowers to IE6 funeral

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