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Microsoft sends flowers to IE6 funeral

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Re: Microsoft sends flowers to IE6 funeral

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Post by sidmitra »

planettrash wrote: post #18
sidmitra wrote: post #8

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 mark…

I like my Opera as it is thanks.

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.

Re: Microsoft sends flowers to IE6 funeral

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Post by olliesaunders »

Locke1689 wrote: post #9
CoreDumpling wrote: post #3

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

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. ;)

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

Re: Microsoft sends flowers to IE6 funeral

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Post by vl »

sidmitra wrote: post #8

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 mark…

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.

Re: Microsoft sends flowers to IE6 funeral

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Post by sketerpot »

olliesaunders wrote: post #22
Locke1689 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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. ;)

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

And that damn web browser they make.

(I make a web site. It works great in every browser I try... until I open it in Internet Explorer, where it's all messed up. This is not an isolated incident.)

Re: Microsoft sends flowers to IE6 funeral

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Post by Locke1689 »

jf wrote: post #12
Locke1689 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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. ;)

We do. :D

Yeah, the ";)" was supposed to be a hint: I'm interning there this summer.

Re: Microsoft sends flowers to IE6 funeral

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Post by ErrantX »

makeramen wrote: post #4

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.

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

Re: Microsoft sends flowers to IE6 funeral

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Post by bad_user »

vl wrote: post #23
sidmitra wrote: post #8

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 mark…

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.

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.

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