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Microsoft Paying Bloggers to Write about Internet Explorer

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Re: Microsoft Paying Bloggers to Write about Internet Explorer

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Post by WorldWideWayne »

Renaud wrote: post #40
nikster wrote: post #13

Wait... I thought the browser wars were over?

IE still represents abut 20% of Browser usage, it's still more than Firefox and a lot more than Safari. You never know, the new direction MS is taking with regards to openness may bear its fruits. It's going to take a lot for MS to regain its past market shares, but personally, I'd prefer if it stayed around and compete with the other browsers. I don't want Chrome to end-up being the new IE.

Where are you getting your numbers?

IE is at ~60% of desktop browsers and sites that report combined numbers for multiple device types sometimes reduce their desktop numbers.

Re: Microsoft Paying Bloggers to Write about Internet Explorer

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Post by GhotiFish »

pling wrote: post #61
peterkelly wrote: post #24

While I can understand some of the concerns here, I'd encourage you to look at where Internet Explorer is now; it's come a long way in the past few years. IE today offers a brand new experience with many different features. The reworked Internet Explorer lets you search smarter and do more with its cool new features, such as multitasking, pinnable sites, and full-screen browsing. Wherever you are, Internet Explorer i…

I hope this is comedy. If it isn't, give me a break :) Excuse the vent - I just spent two hours fixing some shit just for IE... Seriously. I spent a LOT of my time in front of IE and this is the real story: The built in search determination is awful. Half the time, valid web sites are sent straight to bing. It's worse than Safari and Chrome by miles. The only hope is hit Ctrl+E to force it to search. It's as smart is…

its parody, here's another post of his: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7857458

Re: Microsoft Paying Bloggers to Write about Internet Explorer

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Post by jedmeyers »

venomsnake wrote: post #70
higherpurpose wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If it's so good, then they don't need to pay for astro-turfing now? That strategy comes from a position of weakness, not strength.

The OP was sarcastic.

This claim is not proven :)

Re: Microsoft Paying Bloggers to Write about Internet Explorer

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Post by TheCoelacanth »

tomswartz07 wrote: post #87
iopq wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You mean Firefox is the best option. All of it is open source.

Well... so is the Chromium project.

But practically no one uses Chromium; they're using Chrome, which has significant proprietary components.

Re: Microsoft Paying Bloggers to Write about Internet Explorer

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Post by Mikeb85 »

iopq wrote: post #65
Mikeb85 wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

At least Chrome is constantly updated, is fast, and most parts of it (certainly the important parts) are open source... If there's going to be a browser monoculture, Chrome seems like the best option at the moment...

You mean Firefox is the best option. All of it is open source.

Except it has a slow JavaScript engine, crashes on certain pages, and just annoys me all around. I love open source, but I like things that work too.

Re: Microsoft Paying Bloggers to Write about Internet Explorer

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Post by Mikeb85 »

Piskvorrr wrote: post #52
Mikeb85 wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

At least Chrome is constantly updated, is fast, and most parts of it (certainly the important parts) are open source... If there's going to be a browser monoculture, Chrome seems like the best option at the moment...

"If there's going to be a browser monoculture, IE6 seems like the best option at the moment." Yay for repeating the history?

Key difference - Chrome updates itself (on Windows and Chrome OS, Linux package managers update it, not sure about OSX).

You'd have to do something very, very wrong to wind up with a version of Chrome as outdated as IE6 had become...

Re: Microsoft Paying Bloggers to Write about Internet Explorer

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Post by pllbnk »

benaston wrote: post #71

The problem is that now this is public, any positive review of a Microsoft product will be viewed with suspicion, having the very opposite of the intended effect.

Many have always viewed with suspicion to most positive IE reviews in the past. I like giving a honest try for IE from time to time, just like the Bing search (as a user and developer), but always it looks like almost on purpose IE team just refuses to fix most of the annoying things. I believe changing a name might be a good start.

Re: Microsoft Paying Bloggers to Write about Internet Explorer

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Post by officialjunk »

jasonlotito wrote: post #84
netcan wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I fear that if we let complaints about comments, concern about comment quality and long threads going back and forward defending the legitimacy of parody comments in comments, humour, humourless responses and expressions of concern about the complaints dominating the discussion, HN will become boring.

This is the correct attitude. If you disapprove of a comment, down vote it. Dignifying it with a response means one of two things: 1. Your comment is equally worthless, and should be downvoted. Your comment contributes nothing as the original comment contributed nothing. Downvote and move on. 2. Your comment is worthwhile, and therefore, the parent comment is worthwhile as it sparked good conversation and comments. A…

you guys are right. it was my knee-jerk reaction to a comment i thought was trying to market on microsoft's behalf, and telling how i thought their effort could be improved, but then also not being sure if it was parody or not at the time.
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