Comments on: Microsoft making fancy ads for IE instead of improving the browser http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/06/30/microsoft-making-fancy-ads-for-ie-instead-of-improving-the-browser/ Gadgets, gear and computer hardware. Fri, 04 Dec 2009 23:05:35 -0500 hourly 1 By: Cyber Akuma http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/06/30/microsoft-making-fancy-ads-for-ie-instead-of-improving-the-browser/comment-page-1/#comment-1049525 Cyber Akuma Sat, 04 Jul 2009 18:14:51 +0000 http://www.crunchgear.com/?p=98213#comment-1049525 And that is proof that you are biased. I will not lie, they have had their share of bad products, but they have put out a lot of good products as well. And that is proof that you are biased.

I will not lie, they have had their share of bad products, but they have put out a lot of good products as well.

]]> By: Dan http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/06/30/microsoft-making-fancy-ads-for-ie-instead-of-improving-the-browser/comment-page-1/#comment-1049495 Dan Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:26:16 +0000 http://www.crunchgear.com/?p=98213#comment-1049495 If Microsoft actually put out good products, I wouldn't be biased. If Microsoft actually put out good products, I wouldn’t be biased.

]]> By: Cyber Akuma http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/06/30/microsoft-making-fancy-ads-for-ie-instead-of-improving-the-browser/comment-page-1/#comment-1049272 Cyber Akuma Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:49:23 +0000 http://www.crunchgear.com/?p=98213#comment-1049272 Oh please Dan, Sony is the KING of propitiatory crap. BetaMax, Minidisk, ATRAC, Memory Stick, UMD, etc etc etc And don't forget the HDD in the PS2 was propitiatory as well. You have some rather clear anti-MS bias. Oh please Dan, Sony is the KING of propitiatory crap.

BetaMax, Minidisk, ATRAC, Memory Stick, UMD, etc etc etc

And don’t forget the HDD in the PS2 was propitiatory as well.

You have some rather clear anti-MS bias.

]]> By: Cyber Akuma http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/06/30/microsoft-making-fancy-ads-for-ie-instead-of-improving-the-browser/comment-page-1/#comment-1049271 Cyber Akuma Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:46:43 +0000 http://www.crunchgear.com/?p=98213#comment-1049271 Funny, I just tell it no and to not ask me again and it never asks me again.... Funny, I just tell it no and to not ask me again and it never asks me again….

]]> By: Screen Sleuth http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/06/30/microsoft-making-fancy-ads-for-ie-instead-of-improving-the-browser/comment-page-1/#comment-1049266 Screen Sleuth Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:35:17 +0000 http://www.crunchgear.com/?p=98213#comment-1049266 IE8 STILL gives me that stupid "default browser error" every time I start it up, and the only fix i've found makes Firefox not work. Coincidence? I think not. IE8 STILL gives me that stupid “default browser error” every time I start it up, and the only fix i’ve found makes Firefox not work. Coincidence? I think not.

]]> By: Dan http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/06/30/microsoft-making-fancy-ads-for-ie-instead-of-improving-the-browser/comment-page-1/#comment-1049071 Dan Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:44:33 +0000 http://www.crunchgear.com/?p=98213#comment-1049071 Yeah everything is so going that way. I mean everything. To take on good example though, I'll praise the PS3. At least you can put in your own 2.5" harddrive, and use a huge range of peripherals - unlike Mr. 360 where everything you buy for it has to be an outrageously priced, trashy, official Microsoft thing. 120gb HDD for AU$230? No thanks. Not to mention the plethora of other examples Yeah everything is so going that way. I mean everything. To take on good example though, I’ll praise the PS3. At least you can put in your own 2.5″ harddrive, and use a huge range of peripherals – unlike Mr. 360 where everything you buy for it has to be an outrageously priced, trashy, official Microsoft thing. 120gb HDD for AU$230? No thanks. Not to mention the plethora of other examples

]]> By: Cyber Akuma http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/06/30/microsoft-making-fancy-ads-for-ie-instead-of-improving-the-browser/comment-page-1/#comment-1048925 Cyber Akuma Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:06:59 +0000 http://www.crunchgear.com/?p=98213#comment-1048925 Wasn't Safari rated as worse? Wasn’t Safari rated as worse?

]]> By: Ken Bundy http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/06/30/microsoft-making-fancy-ads-for-ie-instead-of-improving-the-browser/comment-page-1/#comment-1048781 Ken Bundy Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:51:02 +0000 http://www.crunchgear.com/?p=98213#comment-1048781 *WARNING* Do NOT use Internet Explorer 8 - this web browser has unacceptable security vulnerabilities. *WARNING* Do NOT use Internet Explorer 8 – this web browser has unacceptable security vulnerabilities.

]]> By: Cyber Akuma http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/06/30/microsoft-making-fancy-ads-for-ie-instead-of-improving-the-browser/comment-page-1/#comment-1048712 Cyber Akuma Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:21:45 +0000 http://www.crunchgear.com/?p=98213#comment-1048712 Laptop Hunter? Straight and the to point. How the HELL are Apple ads to the point? Half of the Mac vs PC ads just bully PC and barely even menton the Mac. Laptop Hunter?

Straight and the to point.

How the HELL are Apple ads to the point? Half of the Mac vs PC ads just bully PC and barely even menton the Mac.

]]> By: Cyber Akuma http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/06/30/microsoft-making-fancy-ads-for-ie-instead-of-improving-the-browser/comment-page-1/#comment-1048709 Cyber Akuma Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:19:24 +0000 http://www.crunchgear.com/?p=98213#comment-1048709 Yet Apple does not even ALLOW 3rd party software that competes with theirs to be installed on the iPhone and are praised for it. Tell me, how would the common Joe even download a browser unless they already have one installed so they can browse to the download page? Don't bother trying to talk about ftps or a friend lending disks or anything like that, I said the common Joe, not the common Geek. And would it really be fair to force MS to bundle their COMPETITION with Windows like Firefox, Chrome, or Opera? Seriously..... Most people use Safari and Quicktime on MACOSX, and Apple isn't called out on it, but MS is. Yet Apple does not even ALLOW 3rd party software that competes with theirs to be installed on the iPhone and are praised for it.

Tell me, how would the common Joe even download a browser unless they already have one installed so they can browse to the download page?

Don’t bother trying to talk about ftps or a friend lending disks or anything like that, I said the common Joe, not the common Geek.

And would it really be fair to force MS to bundle their COMPETITION with Windows like Firefox, Chrome, or Opera?

Seriously…..

Most people use Safari and Quicktime on MACOSX, and Apple isn’t called out on it, but MS is.

]]> By: Cyber Akuma http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/06/30/microsoft-making-fancy-ads-for-ie-instead-of-improving-the-browser/comment-page-1/#comment-1048707 Cyber Akuma Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:15:36 +0000 http://www.crunchgear.com/?p=98213#comment-1048707 I see you have never seen an Apple ad in the last decade. I see you have never seen an Apple ad in the last decade.

]]> By: Miles http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/06/30/microsoft-making-fancy-ads-for-ie-instead-of-improving-the-browser/comment-page-1/#comment-1048699 Miles Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:58:59 +0000 http://www.crunchgear.com/?p=98213#comment-1048699 Sounds like iPhone and most other cell phone carrier stores and video game consoles. :P Can't wait to see the home PC go the way of game consoles, eh? Imagine! You're NOT allowed to write your own stuff or buy anything that isn't blessed by the Microsoft Store. Yummy. XP (yes, it's a disgusted smiley.. the OS version is probably not a coincidence) Sounds like iPhone and most other cell phone carrier stores and video game consoles. :P Can’t wait to see the home PC go the way of game consoles, eh? Imagine! You’re NOT allowed to write your own stuff or buy anything that isn’t blessed by the Microsoft Store. Yummy. XP (yes, it’s a disgusted smiley.. the OS version is probably not a coincidence)

]]> By: Miles http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/06/30/microsoft-making-fancy-ads-for-ie-instead-of-improving-the-browser/comment-page-1/#comment-1048696 Miles Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:54:35 +0000 http://www.crunchgear.com/?p=98213#comment-1048696 It's successful in the same way that notoriety is the same as popularity. It’s successful in the same way that notoriety is the same as popularity.

]]> By: Miles http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/06/30/microsoft-making-fancy-ads-for-ie-instead-of-improving-the-browser/comment-page-1/#comment-1048694 Miles Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:50:54 +0000 http://www.crunchgear.com/?p=98213#comment-1048694 When you say 'ignore standards', did you really mean 'embrace, extend and extinguish?' When you say ‘ignore standards’, did you really mean ‘embrace, extend and extinguish?’

]]> By: Miles http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/06/30/microsoft-making-fancy-ads-for-ie-instead-of-improving-the-browser/comment-page-1/#comment-1048693 Miles Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:49:55 +0000 http://www.crunchgear.com/?p=98213#comment-1048693 No, I'm pretty certain he said 'Microsoft'. In fact, it seems rather right-on. No, I’m pretty certain he said ‘Microsoft’. In fact, it seems rather right-on.

]]> By: Toggles http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/06/30/microsoft-making-fancy-ads-for-ie-instead-of-improving-the-browser/comment-page-1/#comment-1048526 Toggles Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:07:58 +0000 http://www.crunchgear.com/?p=98213#comment-1048526 When I read the headline, I instantly thought: "Wir machen das mit den Fähnchen!" Unfortunately only germans will understand it - there's no sense in translating it, because it's a quote from a funny german TV commercial that one can only understand if he knows the commercial. When I read the headline, I instantly thought:

“Wir machen das mit den Fähnchen!”

Unfortunately only germans will understand it – there’s no sense in translating it, because it’s a quote from a funny german TV commercial that one can only understand if he knows the commercial.

]]> By: Devin Coldewey http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/06/30/microsoft-making-fancy-ads-for-ie-instead-of-improving-the-browser/comment-page-1/#comment-1048262 Devin Coldewey Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:29:22 +0000 http://www.crunchgear.com/?p=98213#comment-1048262 They're to the point at least, even if they dramatize it and basically lie. Microsoft's ads are just way too indirect. They’re to the point at least, even if they dramatize it and basically lie. Microsoft’s ads are just way too indirect.

]]> By: Cyber Akuma http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/06/30/microsoft-making-fancy-ads-for-ie-instead-of-improving-the-browser/comment-page-1/#comment-1048245 Cyber Akuma Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:59:26 +0000 http://www.crunchgear.com/?p=98213#comment-1048245 "That’s the problem with Microsoft: they think they can make their products better by praising and advertising them instead of actually improving them." No, you're thinking of Apple “That’s the problem with Microsoft: they think they can make their products better by praising and advertising them instead of actually improving them.”

No, you’re thinking of Apple

]]> By: Obsidian http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/06/30/microsoft-making-fancy-ads-for-ie-instead-of-improving-the-browser/comment-page-1/#comment-1047955 Obsidian Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:13:28 +0000 http://www.crunchgear.com/?p=98213#comment-1047955 Really? You're going to criticize Microsoft for this when it's all Apple has been doing for years? None of their commercials ever have anything to do with their products; they just make fun of how often PC's crash and get viruses, then make false claims about how Macs never do. Really? You’re going to criticize Microsoft for this when it’s all Apple has been doing for years? None of their commercials ever have anything to do with their products; they just make fun of how often PC’s crash and get viruses, then make false claims about how Macs never do.

]]> By: Chris http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/06/30/microsoft-making-fancy-ads-for-ie-instead-of-improving-the-browser/comment-page-1/#comment-1047838 Chris Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:26:56 +0000 http://www.crunchgear.com/?p=98213#comment-1047838 Dean Cain will always be the man thanks to Lois & Clark. I won't speak ill of him. But he should have higher standards. Dean Cain will always be the man thanks to Lois & Clark. I won’t speak ill of him. But he should have higher standards.

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