Redmond, WA – As the Mozilla Foundation releases Firefox 3 and tries to set a record for most downloads in a day, they will be receiving help from an unlikely source: Microsoft. Steve Ballmer announced early Monday that Microsoft would be halting development on Internet Explorer 8 and focusing the company’s efforts on Firefox 3. “I’m going to be downloading it myself, and I’ve told all our employees to download Firefox 3 on Tuesday and instructed our programming teams to start working on making the open source browser better rather than stumble around with Internet Explorer 8,” said Ballmer. “I mean, why bother? Firefox 3 has the ‘AwesomeBar,’ you can’t seriously expect to compete with that, can you?”
Ballmer said that Firefox 3.0 will be the standard browser included with Windows 7 installations along and will replace Internet Explorer 7 on Windows Vista SP2. “We’ve been looking for something to try to salvage Vista, and this could be it,” said Ballmer.
The Mozilla Foundation was surprised by the news. Carmen Pinter, head of press relations for the Foundation, said, “We’re closing in on 20% of the marketplace, and we know Microsoft is worried, but we didn’t expect this. We predicited capitulation with the release of Firefox 4.0 in 2011 which will have the ‘TotallyAwesomeBar.’”
Ballmer pleaded with other browser makers to coalesce around Firefox. “Why should we have so many programming hours going into different browsers? It’s so easy for everyone to contribute to Firefox. Safari and Opera programmers should get on board too. If we all rally around one browser then consumers will be the big winners, and that’s always been a priority for Microsoft,” said Ballmer.
The programmers working on Internet Explorer 8 were excited. “I can’t wait to stop working on IE8, fucking thing sucks. Most people around here already use Firefox anyway and are sick of doing it Live,” said browser programming team leader William Reily. The Mozilla Foundation said it welcomed any contributors to the project, even from its arch rival Microsoft except “we don’t want any of the people responsible for Internet Explorer 6. They could set back Firefox decades.”Via - http://www.bbspot.com/
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All of us developer types generally use Firefox anyway. I have no need for IE. Microsoft has proven that they do not care nor have the marbles to create a stable browser. Let it die, man! With browsers like Firefox and Opera, not to mention Google Chrome and other up-and-comers, IE is useless to me!
You can say that again! Ive been using firefox since day one and I love it, the sheer amount of plugins alone beats the tar out of ie! Its also open source software so you can pretty much taylor it to your every need, what more could you want. Ive always hated the way ie takes over your whole o.s. since it is intergrated with windows. The only reason its market share is so high is most people (Newbies) wont change cause they either belive in the holy grail of Microsoft or to old or lazy to take the time to read about better options.
Not to mention the millions at work, cafes, libraries, schools and other institutions that are restricted from using anything else!!! Yeah dont forget about those stats. Anyway how you could miss firefox slaying ie all over the net is beyond me! Id never go back to ie and all its bugs and problems. Firefox rulez and thats just how the cookie crumbles! If you agree or disagree Id love to here about it in the comments and why!
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