Thursday, January 18th, 2007
Microsoft Firefox 2007 Professional Edition
If you can’t beat them, join them. That seems to be what Microsoft have done.
In a surprise move, they have created Microsoft Firefox 2007 that mimics a lot of features from Mozilla Firefox.
I can only assume that some deal was struck between the two.
Features
- Simplified User Experience
- Amazing Marginal Manipulation
- Instant Search Box
- Favorites Center
- RSS (Real Simple Sex)
- Tabbed Browsing
- Quick Tabs
- Tab Groups
- Page Zoom
Maybe with this launch we can say goodbye to the annoyances of the IE engine?
2.4 rating from 128 votes
Um, it’s a joke you know…
And it’s rrreeeeeaaaalllllyyyyyyy old :P
Ouch. It hurts… :D
Pretty good joke.
Yeah obviously it’s a joke but perhaps concerning is that it mentions it will take your credit card before you can download “MS FireFox”.
I didn’t explore the download part of the site (ironically it broke in Firefox) but you might want to check it’s not phishing or selling an open source project for money….
That just makes me ill…
Is it supposed to be funny?
It’s not funny, for me, and I hope for many others, IE7 is a very bad copy and mix between FireFox and Opera.
Funny!
Well that’s obviously a fake and it’s doesn’t seem to be a phishing attempt since the form where we are supposed to digit our credit card number never appears.
System requirements :
- Computer/Processor
Quadcore CPU 4.6GHz processor or higher (For the loading of Hotmail.com)
- Drive
Microsoft HD-DVD-ROM drive (Required to maintain dangerous CPU temperatures)
…
XD
I think microsoft deserves that!!!
And being a good employee I am resigning from microsoft
I especially like the part about the new and improved image rendering algorithm:
> Tired of slow image rendering? Microsoft Firefox 2007 can deliver
> online pornography at blazing fiery speeds. By using a proprietary
> dynamic algorithm, anything that remotely resembles a tit or a boob
> will download up to 10 times faster!
And while the download link is broken now… it used to point directly to the IE7 download on the microsoft site.
Haha. That site is very funny.
Must have taken a while to make such a spoof site in order to poke fun at Microsoft.
What gets me, is that some dude must have a LOT of spare time on his hands and must be really bored!
Yees, Joke is really nice. It is like hybrid of firefox and IE tab for firefox :-D
A nice joke though…
God save you ajaxian dudes ….. i doubt the MS lawyers will !
Total hoax. The video they have is a ripoff of the IE7 commercial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0cPw8ut7ks
and you can make firefox look like IE – god knows why?!
http://johnhaller.com/jh/mozilla/firefox_internet_explorer/
I do not understand why you are feeding this spam/linkbait site with air-time…. why send them free traffic for doing something most probably illegal? (yes it a joke, but I’m sure there are legal aspects in that joke.)
How did this ever get posted here. Why do I subsrcibe to this site?
Nice Dion, way to be with it…is this the last nail in Ajaxian’s coffin?
I agree with ajaxianfading. I grab a feed because I want to get something out of it. If I wanted a joke list (and this was a lame joke the first time I saw it), then I would have subscribed to one. That said, I am unsubscribing from this site.
I am a bit surprised this was posted in such a serious manner too. It does not take much browsing on the site to see that it is a joke.
I figured it was a joke when I read that “anything that resembles a tit or a boob will download up to 10 times faster”. hmmmmmm.
Is this a joke?? I seriously hope that Firefox didn’t sell it’s soul to the devil.
What a lame and weak initiative by Microsoft. Are they admitting that they cannot beat the growing Firefox community, despite its billions in development and marketing? If that really is what they are admitting, I suggest they simply leave this market to Firefox and other players who play the game in a fair way.
Microsoft has been messing with browsers and standards for far too long. Their standards for CSS, XML etc. are never compliant with the rest of the world, thus creating their own standards that every Windows user has to comply with and they simply push the latest browser as a ‘Critical Update’.
I’m certain that this cheap trick doesn’t fool people from the Firefox community, but it may confuse a few other people. I don’t like what I see and I hope Firefox didn’t cooperate too much in this, or I will have to start looking for a new browser that feels right to me.
Digg story posted, let’s get some attention on this!
http://www.digg.com/programming/Has_Ajaxian_com_s_Dion_finally_lost_it
Yes, it’s very sad to see either:
- seeing Dion believing such an obvious scam
- this kind of articles on Ajaxian.com
THIS IS REALLY A DISAPPOINTMENT IN AJAXIAN.COM
It’s obviously a joke, but it’s dangerous too from the jokers perspective in that it links to the MS site, and contains an MS copyright, and also follows their website design closely enough to make people wonder.
You know, now that I look at the posting time, 12:33AM, maybe he was drinking or smoking something?
This post has a”Fun” Technorati tag, which means Dion knows this is a joke.
kourge: I don’t come here for “fun”.
Um, Save this sort of weirdness for April 1st would ya!
Geez, I had a moment of nausea and discomfort at the thought.
Love the System requirements though.
Well what is very interesting is the Javascript that handles the fake download actually contacts microsoft.com!
yeah thats true, lol uoi can see it here : http://www.msfirefox.com//msff/download-js-2371878sadhsdhay298yasd-msff.html
Yes, it’s an old joke. And demonstrates that everyone can get fooled once in a while. It does not say a thing about the quality of Ajaxian.com.
What a shame!!!
What happened with source checking?
Seriously people lay off the site was funny and even Ajaxian people may want to have some fun every once in a while FFS don’t see many of you doing this stuff….
Jeez people its a joke and it certainly made me chuckle.
Thank you for bringing it to my attention :)
haha! That’s great, thanks for posting Dion… I particularly enjoyed the “system requirements” page!
That is totally awesome!!!
Someone had way to much free time on their hands. :)
Amazing how many people:
A. lack a sense of humor
B. think it’s a better use of their time to write an indignant comment than to just press the space bar to move to the next post
Aren’t we meant to wait until april 1 for this sort of thing?
I have a sense of humour, I just don’t need this kind of crap in my feed reader.
Yes it was funny the first time around…. months ago.
I go to digg if I want this kind of “news”.
Andrew: My point is that Dion did not mistaken this joke as something real. However, I do agree that this post is seriously irrelevant.
It’s sad that you’re promoting a crappy site like this.
They are breaking several trademark laws by trying to imitate a legit Microsoft webpage. Hoenstly, I am shocked this hasn’t long since been shut down (like it should be) by Microsoft.
This was a lousy joke on your part. All these months you had maintained a dignified standard in your articles. But this one was indeed filled with very bad taste.
Dont mind the lousy comments Dion.
Nice to begin the day with a smile, makes me more efficient.
I love the Micro$oft career page…
C’mon ppl, it is a JOKE. Look at it, smile and then move on. It is not the end of the WORLD.
Sheesh, all work and no play makes people go crazy
Did anybody download it?
Is it fake or not?
lighten up people..
and for the stupid legality ‘issue’, he’s protected under copyright law since it’s clearly a parody.
Very funny joke!
I have investigated the above website and it is no way relate to Microsoft and still using their name for spam. It’s weird that it’s still up and running.
The site no way related to Microsoft. Read the pages of the site, you will understand. But why microsoft allow the site to be online ?
Hahahahaa. Very funny!
lol.. april mop, isn’t it?
– CEO of fsbo New Jersey