To All Firefox Users: It’s Time To Marginalize IE!
Those crazy kids at Mozilla (or some crazy fan) just put together the switch site of all switch sites: Kill Bill’s Browser.
If people thought Apple poked and prodded Microsoft Windows users during their switch campaign, Mozilla (or the aforementioned fan) is pimp slapping Microsoft IE. They’re even leveraging the Google AdSense program to reward bloggers for promoting (or forcing) IE users to make the move.
Pimp hand in play.
But seriously, out of the 13 reasons they list to make the move, #5 is by far the one that keeps me up at night:
I’m not in SF, but I’ve come close enough to leaping into the Hudson over this same frustration (believe me, that skank water is just as dangerous). Hopefully, heads of corporate procurement and InfoSec departments are reached by this site too as they represent the majority of IE users. Although, I don’t think a site talking frankly about porn is going to convince them. They’re in too happy a relationship with the Microsoft empire to pause for self-pleasure minus the pop-ups.
And while we’re schmoozing Microsoft, let’s end this post on a great note and pause to reflect upon why we dislike them so much.
Just where did their purple Nike’s and jugs of Kool-Aid disappear to?
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For years I would have agreed with this. But over recent months I’ve started working with the IE team over at Microsoft, and I am absolutely blown away by the transformation in their attitude and approach toward the rest of the web. The new IE team (it’s mostly new people) is all about outreach and working with the community on building a better browser. They are not only paying attention to other offerings, such as Firefox, but even learning from the examples set by more cutting edge applications, such as Flock. And, from everything I’ve seen, they have the smarts and the desire to set a positive direction. I expect good things from IE 7, and the people working on it would probably agree with most of what has been said about their previous efforts. Wait and give them a second chance… (I’m not speaking about Microsoft in general here, just IE, but I am actually willing to give MSFT as a whole another chance right now.)
hey, dewitt. from what i know to be true, the problem with MSFT has never been their developers, developers, developers!!! (ha) the problem has been their closed minded, cut-throat management team. historically, a lot of their top-down decisions have rendered brilliant people tools in “a grand plan” to gain market share, rather than as innovators working with the technology community to further the needs of the end user and the bottom line. when they do pay attention to the community, they do so for profit by straight up ripping off the competition (windows/apple os anyone?)
unfortunately for them, that’s their M.O. and it’ll take a while for that image to morph into something more collaborative.
look, i don’t necessarily want to destroy IE, but i absolutely want to marginalize versions of IE < 5.5. either MSFT makes a real effort to entice large corporations and individual consumers to upgrade, or these types of campaigns will continue to pop-up.
hey dewitt, this report from gartner is the type of bs that i’m talking about.
the advice they’re giving corporations is based solely on security enhancements and nothing to do with presentation standards.
mad frustrating.