MS buys off opensource again...

[old.Whoodoo]

Just when you thought Bill Gates cheque book could not tempt the makers of such a professional open source browser, look what he bought!!

http://www.msfirefox.com/

I love this line in his blurb:

Upgrade from other shoddy browsers with confidence. Get downloads for Microsoft Firefox, including recommended updates as they become available.

Wonder if he means shoddy ones like IE....

So we lose another decent browser, the virus writers around the globe will be circling this like vultures, when is the tit going to realise, if its got MS on it, everyone on the opensource net is going to target it?

 

[Calaen]

When will people realise, that he does not care? Shit is available for firefox aswell, But it aint got MS on so it does not count. People should be thanking him for creating the world we live in today. Its typical of the people that currently live on this planet.

I had a guy hand me this article this morning and he had tears in his eyes. I actually laughed in his face. Hes a anti MS fan boi and I fucking love it when this shit happens.

 

[chretien]

Well made hoax.

 

[Cadiva]

Aye I think Microsoft can afford to not have to have - Ads provided by Google - links on their websites.

 

[Chronictank]

o dear mike. fell for hit hook line and sinker :<

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[Naetha]

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[Jeremiah]

I loved this new feature!

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[Sparx]

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[old.Whoodoo]

Bah, yeah I wrote this before delving too deep, and taing Thereg at their word, lol.

Looks the part tho

 

[Calaen]

Bah why wasnt that shit there before :-(

 

[Case]

Bah, yeah I wrote this before delving too deep, and taing Thereg at their word, lol.

Looks the part tho

Twigged immediately

Did you know that according to the OED Online that gullible really has been taken out of the dictionary?

 

[Naetha]

Damn I got nerfed by flicking between user accounts

 

[Mojo]

haha v cool

I love MS, they rox the most.

 

[Gamah]

Bah why wasnt that shit there before :-(

Egg+face

 

[Ingafgrinn Macabre]

Bah, yeah I wrote this before delving too deep, and taing Thereg at their word, lol.

Looks the part tho

Please tell me you didn't really believe it at the first moment. The page looks to shabby to be a microsoft page. Can say a lot about them, but they do care about the looks of things, and that (with the badly edited bill gates picture on the site, the odd looking grading etc) is definately not a microsoft made page.

 

[Calaen]

I actually read it on the Register this morning they were not aware of it as a fake at 10 this morning, they have since changed the story the site was down so I could not check, I didnt actually click on the link in this thread till I saw people saying it was a fake.

Gamah you bitch you are going down in the poker challenge!!!!

 

[Ingafgrinn Macabre]

On a sidenote... Microsoft is actually trying to get their hands in the OpenSource community. They have signed (or are in the process of signing) an agreement with Novell, and there's a lot of objection to it from the opensource community.

 

[razeredge]

lol

Previous installations of browsers such as Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox, will automatically be overwritten. The removal of Microsoft Firefox from your system violates international copyright law. Therefore, you cannot legally uninstall Microsoft Firefox.

 

[evzy]

I have probably spent about 13 seconds on Microsoft pages in my life...no pr0n.

Read the thread before I looked at it though - may have fallen for it for a moment tbh.