IE Sends Mozilla a New Cake for Firefox 3
by Al
Sean from Microsoft came by just a few minutes ago to drop off a cake for the Internet Explorer team. As people may recall, the IE team sent Mozilla a cake after Firefox 2 shipped and it seems that they wanted to continue the tradition.
Sean and I used to work together and I happened to be the one that saw him as he came in so he presented the cake to me and John Lilly and we then took it around to staff. I think people found it amusing and the “E” portion of the Firefox 2 cake, which is preserved in our freezer to this day, was pulled out for comparison. I must say, the new cake is much nicer (and much less brown) than the old one.
Here are a couple of photos from Rob:
Me with the Cake
Closeup of the Cake
Comments
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That looks like one heck of a delicious cake. Really nice of them!
What, no dropping a large “e” on their lawn this time?
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The cake.
It’s a lie
[...] news of the Microsoft Internet Explorer team sending the Firefox team at Mozilla a cake had me laughing a bit. Even more impressive is the personal delivery by an IE team member! As most [...]
IT’S A TRAP!
The cake is probably poisoned. :D
… There is no cake.
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Yes, the Cake is a Lie.
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The irony of Sean giving you the cake is thick. :)
Yes, Jack, I would agree. He got this big grin on his face and said, “I think I need to give this to you” when he came in with it. Seriously, I was just randomly near the door when he came in, passing by. John Lilly, our CEO, happened to be there too.
I think it is pretty ironic but I was also no longer on the IE team when the last cake was sent. That would have made it more ironic. :-)
By the time the cake arrived, it already had several vulnerabilities in the wild.
[...] chłopaki z zespołu twórców Internet Explorera przysłali (a w zasadzie osobiście przynieśli) wielki tort z logiem IE. Jak opowiada Al Billings z Mozilli na swoim blogu, część tortu z 2006 roku z literką „E” [...]
Thats the funniest thing I have seen in a long time. I would be very wary of boobie traps in that cake if I were the mozilla team.
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When they get around to releasing IE 8, you should return the favor with some apple pies or something.
A la quirks mode.
I’m just wondering where the cake from the Safari team is…
Oh, and don’t serve it for breakfast:
http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=14462
Just send one back with the Firefox logo~
“Yes, it will do well. Thanks for the well wishes”
;)
This can’t be. Microsoft is, err, evil innit? :)
Now if only they could work on their CSS support, starting with border-radius, they might get their karma heading back towards earth from down there near hell.
Think how much that cake costs when the ultimately high-salaried IE coders used half a day baking that cake, another half decorating it…
Let them eat cake!
Let the eat cake!
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Yeah, dont eat it. You’ll get a virus, and the cake is full of bugs. Also, the cake was made by fully ignoring cake-making standards.
No cookies?
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Some things are a given. The cake most certainly will crash, reboot, do strange things you’ve not asked it to do.
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The thing is… They don’t tell you you can’t remove the cake if you don’t want it.
No matter what. The cake is integral to the entire operation of the thing.
[...] Internet Explorers, wie auch beim Release der 2er-Version, den Firefox-Erschaffern wieder mal einen Kuchen schickten. Nette Geste eines heimlichen Konkurrenten – wollen wir hoffen, dass mit dem Kuchen alles in [...]
Did they give the recipe? Is it open source?
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The cake doesn’t pass the Acid2 test, and if you eat it, your bowels will switch over to quirks mode.
[...] 3, que ocorreu ontem as 14h (horário de Brasília). A foto e a história pode ser conferia no blog de um dos desenvolvedores do Firefox. Via O [...]
comedia…Nice huhuhu
[...] the best way to get a cake from Microsoft is apparently to release version 3.0 of Firefox. It’s certainly better than a giant metal E. [...]
The mozilla team should return the favor next time a Windows deadline gets missed by sending an almost identical cake that reads: “Congratulations on slipping!” :)
I second the notion of the “slipping” cake!
Now if they had just sent a Mac book air to cut it with…
IE has to be good for SOMETHING.
[...] Via: Arcanology [...]
[...] work on Internet Explorer over at Microsoft even sent the Mozilla developers who work on Firefox a cake to congratulate them on getting their latest release out the [...]
Nice gesture, I don’t think Microsoft meant harm with this cake. It is becoming gentler thanks to Mozilla and Google.
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[...] the competition with Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. But as a gesture of goodwill, the IE team sent a congratulatory cake to the Firefox [...]
Hum! At least it didn’t blow up.
But I bet once you remove the icing you’re going to get the blue screen of death ;)
I like the idea of returning the favor for IE8, but you should provide the recipe with yours! And coordinate with some plugin writers to send candles…
[...] Microsoft felicita Firefox Iunie 18, 2008 Scris de Andrei Imediat dupa lansarea Firefox 3 cei care se ocupa de Internet Explorer s-au gandit sa felicite rivalii de la Firefox. Asa ca le-au trimis un tort cadou. . Oare au otravit tortul? [...]
[...] acima de 5 mil downloads por minuto. Um fato tão histórico que nem mesmo a Microsoft aguentou: enviaram um bolo para a Fundação Mozilla em cumprimento ao [...]
[...] The Microsoft Internet Explorer team, Firefox’s main rivals, even sent Mozilla a cake. [...]
You should be sending them a bunch of fortune cookies with Mozilla source code in it or a large cookie with the whole code :-)
[...] Denne nye version har vagt stor opmærksomhed. Internet Explorer’s udviklinmgshold har ligesom de gjorde da Forefox 2 udkom bagt en kage til Mozilla. Du kan læse mere om det her. [...]
Congratulations to the Guinness-record.
Is scho alles recht geil, ne?
[...] Enfim, tudo foi relatado no blog de um membro da equipe do Firefox 3. Pode ser lido aqui! [...]
Reportedly, the cake crashed from not being able to render the frosting correctly …
[...] can read the post from Al Billings, a QA Engineer at the Mozilla corporation and he was there when Sean from Microsoft came to deliver [...]
Honestly I thought it was nice The IE team sent them a cake. It shows good sportsmanship on their part in this competitive world of online browsers.
Kudos to The Firefox Team for the number of downloads and IE Team for the cake.
Darkk
Just say thank you. No need to bash MSFT … you guys did a heck of a job. Coder to coder (not company to company) the cake is recognition of your achievements.
As mentioned, whenever they release a browser that is both innovative and standards compliant, send them a cake / invite them to a picnic … something … but recognize that they would have to fight management AND the code to do that. The pat on the back is warranted.
PS … I didn’t get read your email in time, but I got a look at the link on my Gmail reader and got my dl started before midnight. Barely. I was probably among the final few.
Congrats … but next time, give us a bit more warning!
[...] Microsoft Internet Explorer поздравила разработчиков Mozilla Firefox с запуском третьей версии. [...]
i haven’t downloaded firefox 3, they’ll have to make me.
But a cake?
Now that’s nice.
Poison.
The oldest trick in the book.
I thought the oldest trick involved a horse?
Where is the bomb? :P
Nice! Applause for IE Team and FF Team!
\o/
Prophecy of the Book of Mozilla, 11:9 becoming real …;-)
Ok, I hate IE and Microsoft, but I admmire their attitude doing this. It’s like a competition, but they’re being nice doing it :)
but the cake looks horrible :O
É UMA CILADA BINO!!
ENTÃO CORRE PEDRO!!
(I’TS A TRAP BINO!! RUN PEDRO!!)
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The cake is a fake!
The fake is a piece of cake!
Ha-ha-ha; or, ho-ho-ho:
I believe in Santa Claus!
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[...] mesma coisa. As fotos foram tiradas por Al Billings, engenheiro da Mozilla, que as publicou em seu blog.Eu, se fosse ele, não comeria o bolo não… ashuahsuas É cada uma, [...]
Ei gostei do bolo viu, mas eu acho que eles deveriam estar preocupados hahahaha
A poisoned cake!
[...] informações no blog de um dos [...]
Becareful, it maybe poison.
Don’t trust it!
There is a file in the cake, and a virus in the file!
No one asked yet but…
can we get a picture of the Firefox 2 cake? How brown is it?
The old cake is viewable at http://www.flickr.com/photos/jollyjake/278562314/.
[...] da imagem: arcanology.com e [...]
If i know Microsoft and Bill Gates,They probably got all the possible patents and Intellectual property rights on the Cake from the design,recipe,flavor to the cardboard box they mailed it in.
Karthik,
Did you miss the memo? Bill Gates has retired from Microsoft…
Microsoft Bakes a Cake for Mozilla…
Looks like Microsoft does have a sense of humour after all or at least a sense of community. The Internet Explorer Development Team at Microsoft has sent Mozilla a cake to mark the release of Mozilla……
Great Ukrainian colors!
[...] Разработчики IE7 в честь выхода своего детища отправили разработчикам Firefox праздничный торт. [...]
Questo articolo è stato segnalato su ZicZac.it….
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[...] Explorer ekibi mozilanın Firefox 3′ü yayınlamasının ardından bir kutlama pastası göndermiş. Internet Explorer ekibi bunu Firefox 2 yayınlandığı zamanda yapmış. Gelenek halini almış [...]
SORRY IE AND WINDOWS, FIREFOX OWNEDDD!!!!
The cake certainly looked a little bloated, its add-on didn’t really go well with it and the whole thing fell apart when the Firefox team tried to eat it.
Бойтесь маздайцев, торты приносящих!
[...] Time do IE envia bolo aos desenvolvedores do Firefox Postado no 19/Junho/2008 de VEMqueTEM! O bolo foi entregue pessoalmente pelo time de desenvolvedores do Internet Explorer, o navegador da Microsoft, parabenizando a equipe do Firefox pelo lançamento da última versão do navegador, o Firefox 3, que ocorreu no dia 17/06 às 14h (horário de Brasília). A foto e a história pode ser conferia no blog de um dos desenvolvedores do Firefox. [...]
Very, very, very nice, attitude of Microsoft, Congratulation all team Firefox.
[...] foi a equipe do Internet Explorer. John Slater, diretor de criatividade da fundação Mozilla agradece à Microsoft pelo bolo no seu blog, mas convenhamos, muitos devem ter ficado com receio de experimentar com medo de estar envenenado. [...]
Muuito bom..xD
hahahha.. it’s funny
looooooooooolll kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
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… é como aquele velho ditado : “Ja que não pode com eles se juntes a eles”.
Que invenja heim Bill Gates.
The ironic bit is congrats on SHIPPING. The m$ folks are more impressed w/ somebody hitting their SHIPPING date than w/ the software they wrote! :)
Has m$ EVER hit a shipping date? Or more importantly, has m$ ever hit a shipping date within the YEAR they published.
pp in “shipping” like TT
[...] a imagem eu peguei no site do Al Billings, que é um dos desenvolvedores do [...]
[...] well to web standards. And just like they did when Firefox 2 was released, the IE team has sent Mozilla a cake to congratulate them on releasing Firefox 3. (It’s the least they folks could do; without Firefox, [...]
Hehehehhehe. be careful… =P
salty cake? ;-)
[...] quelli di Microsoft si sono complimentati. Firefox, il rivale numero uno di Internet Explorer ha vinto l’ennesima [...]
USo o firefox e troco so por outro melhor, ps ainda não achei ehehehe
The cake is a lie
The cake is a lie
The cake is a lie
The cake is a lie
The cake is a lie
The cake is a lie
[...] Original post is here [...]
[...] foi a equipe do Internet Explorer. John Slater, diretor de criatividade da fundação Mozilla agradece à Microsoft pelo bolo no seu blog, mas convenhamos, muitos devem ter ficado com receio de experimentar com medo de estar envenenado. [...]
is that what we call “Eating your opponent?”
[...] thing to hit the internet service market. More glorious than Firefox 3 , more glorious than the Internet Explorer cake Mozilla got after launching Firefox 3, and definitely way more glorious than a [...]
Are you sure the cake not sound tic-tac??? :P
[...]hey bro, drop this… don´t eat![...]
argggh!!!
And now, Bill make a cakes!!!
For IE8, we need to get 8 million people to send MS a cookie—with recipe.
wouldn’t eat it… full of bugs.
What’s the big deal?? They’re just saying thanks for all the fresh ideas they can copy… err… I mean new ideas they can think of.
Hehee show .
Nice reference to Fitt’s Back Button in FF3 with the over-sized ‘e’ on the left.
I sure hope that when IE8 ships, Mozilla sends the IE8 team a cake with a gradient (RGBA) background.
Its the thought that counts. Grats to the mozilla team for getting the best browser currently available out to the masses!
[...] By around 4am UK time last night the 24 hours were up- 8.2 million downloads meant the world record was pretty-much de facto, and the Internet Explorer team even sent them a congratulatory cake. [...]
Congratulation for FF team and don’t eat the cake!!
i give you a cake .. you give me the source of FF 3.0 hehehe..
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I think I’ll give you pizza,
it’s better than just a cake….
:)
the blue “cake” of death
lol
congrats to ff team
[...] É verdade, a equipe de desenvolvimento do Internet Explorer deu um bolo para a equipe de desenvolvimento do Firefox na época do lançamento do Firefox 2 e agora, no lançamento do Firefox 3. [...]
Normalmente quem atua na área de computação que tem uma visão mais precisa sobre esse assunto, pois algumas táticas da Microsoft são totalmente monopolistas e injustas com outros desenvolvedores. Especificamente, o fato de incluir programas completos em seu Windows, a exemplo do Internet Explorer. Eu sei que a MS é dona do SO Windows e faz o que quiser com ele. Mas o Sistema Operacional é apenas um intermediário entre os aplicativos e o hardware do computador e deve ser o MAIS DISCRETO possível para o usuário. A Microsoft entope o Windows de MEDIA PLAYER, MOVIE MAKER, INTERNET EXPLORER e outros aplicativos que não fazem parte do KERNEL do sistema e nem são peças básicas fundamentais para o seu funcionamento. Isso faz uma concorrência desleal com outros desenvolvedores de softwares aplicativos.
Mesmo assim, a Microsoft é dona do Windows e faz o que quiser. Ela não vai ser trouxa e a vantagem que tem de colocar tudo de barbada da sua própria marca no seu próprio sistema, ainda mais o NAVEGADOR WEB que é uma peça chave e estratégica.
Isso que é uma merda para NÓS USUÁRIOS. Pois freia totalmente o crescimento de outras empresas desenvolvedoras de aplicativos. E impede o aparecimento de soluções melhores.
O INTERNET EXPLORER é o melhor exemplo. Ficou ANOS e mais ANOS, pelos menos uns CINCO ANOS, sem novas atualizações. A Microsoft se acomodou pois não tinha ninguém nem fazendo cocegas para ameaçar o reinado, pois qual usuário iria se incomodar de baixar+instalar algum outro se o EXPLORER já vem integrado no Windows, sendo inclusive impossível desinstala-lo !!! Passamos anos usando a bosta do Internet Explorer 6.
Precisou aparecer o FIREFOX, muito melhor mesmo que o Internet Explorer, para fazer frente, fazer com que as pessoas perdessem tempo baixando e instalando um navegador novo em paralelo. Só assim, a Microsoft lançou o Internet Explorer 7.
Hoje o Firefox consegue a façanha de 18% do mercado, mesmo que a Microsoft venha com o Internet Explorer integrado no Windows, fazendo que a grande, gigante maioria leiga dos usuários nem se importem com isso e continuem usando o lixo desenvolvido pela empresa do Bill Gates. Usam porque nem tem noção que possa existir algo melhor. Nem tem noção que o Explorer é um navegador, para a maioria o icone do “e” significa acessar a Internet e pronto….
Uso Windows, uso Linux, uso Mac OS, antes usava MSX, Amiga e vários outros computadores. O mundo da informática não é só Microsoft e ela não é nem tão boa e nem tão ruim… o Windows é muito bom para usar em casa, mas para navegar na Internet coloquem o INTERNET EXPLORER NO LIXO e usem FIREFOX !!!
Lol, it’s just sweet))
Is there a mac-version of this cake?
Walljet.
You should accept cookies for the originating site only!
To be a Mac compatible cake it would have to have come from Intel.
But seriously, the only way they got away with using a semi-accurate IE logo on the cake was to have Bill G. retire. (Good thing he did cause that old cke looked horrid, not to mention deadly)
Congratulations! You deserve this!
Mozilla is the best!
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Xandi on June 20th, 2008 1:17 am
Falou e disse Xandi.
Faço minhas as suas palavras!!
“Coloquem o INTERNET EXPLORER NO LIXO e usem FIREFOX !”
Did it come with a EULA?
[...] IE Sends Mozilla a New Cake for Firefox 3 Nice gestures on behalf of M$, but seriously: The cake is a lie. The cake is a lie. The cake is a li- (obscure reference?) Anyway, I haven’t tried out FF3 yet, have you? [...]
[...] seen it, check out the cake that the IE developers sent over to the FireFox office on launch day. IE Sends Mozilla a New Cake for Firefox 3 : In Pursuit of Mysteries Last edited by 0v3rki11; Today at 06:43 [...]
You normally find something else planted on a rivals lawn such as a large turd. Nice to see rivals can be civil about things.
I think its time for Mozilla to send a followup cake to Microsoft. What do you guys think?
They have to ship IE8 first…
[...] mesmo foi entregue pessoalmente ao gerente da equipe do Mozilla. Só espero que o bolo não estava [...]
[...] thought this was cool, with the release of FireFox 3 this week the IE team at Microsoft sent them a cake, sweet, who says Microsoft hasn’t got a sense of humor. addthis_url = [...]
Was it poisoned?
[...] no download day, a equipe do IE enviou um bolo para parabenizar sua concorrente. O bolo foi entregue pessoalmente ao gerente da equipe do [...]
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Beware of geeks bearing gifts
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beware, this cake is made of bugs!
How nice of them!
[...] John Slater, director de criatividade da fundação agradece à Microsoft o bolo , através do seu blog referindo que gostaram muito do sabor da guloseima e até congelaram um pedaço como forma de manterem como recordação. [...]
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This is interesting… I would think that IE people would be scared. IE even on my vista PC is terrible compared to firefox. A cake probably has a secret spy camera in it!
You guys @ Mozilla should send a cake with the Firefox Logo as well as send along the written recipe (source code) to MS when they release I.E 8 so they would get a cake in return as well as the “source code” to be able to modify hahahaha.
Now to get serious Well Done Microsoft of putting your differences behind you to send a cake out of good gesture. Why can’t you Microsoft be nice yo more rivals. I guess this is just the stepping ground.
Long Live FireFox!!!!!
Mda, i dazhe zdes’ reklamirujut IE.
A voobsche, ostroumno.
Мда, и даже здесь рекламируют ИЕ.
А вообще, остроумно.
Hm, and even there is reclam of IE. (excuse me my english).
And in general, witty.
Realmente, o time IE tem que se curvar diante do time da Mozilla. O Firefox é muito melhor…
Estou muito feliz com o resultado. Parabéns a todos do Time Mozilla!
[...] IE Team apparently wanted to keep with the tradition from last year and send the Firefox team a fresh cake in congratulations for releasing Firefox 3.0. Last year they did the same when Firefox 2 was [...]
Underneath the icing, it’s the same cake Microsoft released for Firefox 2.
А, когда выйдет IE8 разработчикам Firefox’a надо бы подарить им свой торт с изображением Лиса.
I’m concerned about the license agreement label they must have had to remove to open the cake box. There’s no telling what the Mozilla team agreed to by opening that box!
[...] IE team from Microsoft sent a nice little IE cake to the Firefox team following the release of FF3. Apparently, they did the same when FF2 was launched. More [...]
[...] the popular web comic User Friendly just did a cartoon about the cake that Internet Explorer sent to Mozilla the other day when we shipped Firefox [...]
congrats to the mozilla on ff3 for my fav browser and a pat on the back to microsoft for being good sports
even though if i first saw it i would hold microsoft to a standard of poisoning the cake to get rid of competition (paranoia setting in)
anyway long live the mozilla team and best wishes to microsoft maybe you can dig your company out of its suck hole
also sounds like business plan #11 mess with your competitor’s minds
The cake is a lie.
The Cake is A Lie!
The Cake is A Lie!
The Cake Is A Lie!
…. The Cake is Not Vanilla We Tricked You!!
It’s Chocolate!!
We Are So Evil!!..
Yeah but I bet they wouldn’t give you the recipe if you asked for it…
[...] 3 though. There are so many little tweaks that it is hard not to love. Even Microsoft thoughtit was worthy of a cake, which says a [...]
[...] 24, 2008 The release of Firefox 3 has happened, and there was much rejoicing. And now, our sights are set for Firefox 3.1 and [...]
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Mais uma vez a Mozilla comeu parte da Microsoft…hehehe.
Troja is everywhere…
lol.. I bet they can’t even get a cake mixture right. it’ll be full of eggshell.. you’ll have to upgrade to service cake 3
Awesome cake! How good natured the IE team is, who would’ve thought lol.
[...] Corporation employee Al Billings, who used to be a project manager for the IE team, posted some photographs of the cake, which features a large Internet Explorer ‘e’ logo and the message, [...]
so are u guys keepin this one in the fridge too? Thts like freezing the ie…awwww i get it, thts how come ie is “frozen” whilst firefox keeps advancing…TAKE IT THE NORTH POLE!!!! …jus jokin
[...] Internet Explorer enviou um bolo para a equipe do Firefox em pleno Download Day. De acordo comAl Billings esta foi a segunda vez que eles receberam o bolinho, que como o primeiro deverá ir para freezer [...]
IE 7eam = clever
[...] their contender. Some say that it’s a trap! Here’s the pictures of that cake which I take from Al Billings’s blog, one of the Mozilla’s QA Engineers. Thanks to [...]
Hehehe check out the No. 7 instead of “t” (team)
Love it :)
Anyhow long live firefox
That’s actually a cursive ‘T’. :-)
Fear the M$ Geeks bearing gifts! :)
It’s neat how they can make the ring around ‘e’ stand! I’d ask how, but I fear the cake is not open source :P
Great sense of humour, that cake is obviously a lie!
Funny thing
IE has good sense of humor.
It is probably a genuine gesture. After all, if it weren’t for Firefox’s successes, the world would still be stuck with the tired IE6. There wouldn’t be an IE Team – or version IE7 or the upcoming IE8. So the success of Firefox is probably job-security for the IE team. They have a lot to be thankful for :-)
I hate firefox. i also hate internet explorer. i hate safari. i hate avant browser. The best browsers currently available are SeaMonkey and Netscape navigator > which sadly is not alive anymore. The cake has a bomb in it. it will go off when internet explorer 8 is released. I downloaded internet explorer 8 beta to see if they changed anything. they didn’t same ol’IE.
FIREFOX !
is better !
Firefox Rocks !
Regrestration key come with the cake ???
Better not eat it before you get the security update
[...] de Internet Explorer mostró algo del buen espíritu competitivo, enviando al equipo de Mozilla unas felicitaciones en forma de pastel, en serio. De hecho, pueden disfrutar de todo el asunto en esta galería de Flickr. Más [...]
Maybe the cake is more useful than the browser! (or, perhaps, are there any worms inside the cake as well as the browser?!)
Make a “HCCP” control and you will get the response :D
ITS ALL A TRICK!! don’t eat it once you do it will infect everything and they will use it to steal the source code of FF3!!!… oh wait… damn…
is the cake genuine?
the cake may contain vulnerabilities like ie
what firefox team will send on ie8 launch?
(ans: may be a FIRED (dead) FOX.)
anyway, just kidding. ;), good sportsmanship bet ie and ff
Nice… I’m going to refrain from adding to the massive compilation of IE jokes, and just be happy that the cake made it on time for it’s expected delivery date. For once, microsoft delivered something on time. Ain’t that something?…
Please let us know when you find the hidden Easter Egg….
[...] bad for the first video I get to post here. The cake is shown here and thanks to minor of highfiber for the stuff by the [...]
[...] Au moins Microsoft a un peu de sens de l’humour sur sa part de marché décroissante, puisqu’ils acceptent de bonne grâce de partager le gâteau avec leurs concurrents. [Al Billings] [...]
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[...] What we didn’t know is that Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) Team sent some congratulatory sugar, flour, and water to help the Mozilla folks celebrate their accomplishment. You can check out the pictures of the IE Team’s “Congratulations on Shipping!” Firefox cake. [...]
[...] Corporation employee Al Billings, who used to be a project manager for the IE team, posted some photographs of the cake, which features a large Internet Explorer ‘e’ logo and the message, [...]