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ShareThisMicrosoft’s Internet Explorer team has sent a fancy cake to Mozilla’s Mountain View headquarters to join the celebration of the Firefox 3 release.
Surprising? Not that much. They did the same thing for Firefox 2 release.
It was also revealed today that Mozillians keep the IE logo piece frozen since then!
Kudos to the IE team for their sport spirit!
I reiterate what someone said when the last cake appeared – Mozilla should send a cake back, include the recipe, and ask for advice on how to improve it. ;)
Damn. And this had to appear when I was hungry. :x
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We are such a gracious group!
Great Microsoft, and great team of IE 7
This time they used a much bigger logo… what a waste… now you have a smaller amount of eatable cake left :lol:
It’s decoration bloat (aka eye candy)…what did you expect.
@ Dreamwave
Somehow that seems very expected. ;)
The Mozilla team should send back the improved recipe for the received cake and contact info if the IE Team needs support for it.
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The cake is a lie
The cake is a cake
The cake is a pie!
The lye is in the cake
No, the cake is a lie!
The lie is a cake.
A lie is a lie and a cake is a cake
Where’d my companion cube go!?!?
The cake is a spy!
(they still don’t get the open source paradigm)
I wonder if it has as many bugs as Internet Explorer has :-\
It will if you leave it on the counter long enough…
But the question is : who on earth would dare to eat a YELLOW AND BLUE cake ? o_O
Nice from Microsoft anyway… “C’est l’intention qui compte” :)
But how do we know that cake isn´t poisoned :-o
You can’t have your cake and eat it.
If you read up on the backgrounds of some of the IE8 team you’ll find out they are a good bunch of people. I think this is a sincere gesture, and I was thinking the same thing as Dave, that a cake in kind would be nice when IE8 ships. I even have hope that IE8 will be a good product because of who’s on the team.
Congratulations to the Firefox team on shipping the new version.
Hopefully we’ll have a new version of Seamonkey soon that has all the rendering improvements.
om nom nom nom
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Firefox cake…
Internet explorer team has sent the mozilla browser team a cake to join the celebration of the Firefox 3 release.
It seems that Firefox has been downloaded around 8 million times within last 24 hours.
IE team had sent a cake last year too, on release…
The cake is for Firefox developers keeping the IE guys in a job! Don’t think too much development would be going into IE without Firefox around. Those IE guys owe them more than a cake!
Don’t eat it! It’s poisoned!
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Please understand why MS sends the cakes!
The cakes doesn’t mention Firefox or Mozilla in any way, but very clearly IE. Hence, MS sends the cakes not to congratulate Mozilla, but to get Mozilla to advertise for IE.
Very clever move by MS to have their competitor advertise for them!
Please only allow cookies if they are addressed to Firefox or Mozilla in the future.
I think you’re right. I mean, why wouldn’t Microsoft need to advertise their browser? It’s not like it comes on the vast majority of desktops world wide already or anything.
Dan, it is present in Windows but MS advertise for using… And for all marketing stuff like “Windows comes with superior web browser”!
Good the see their cake design has all the subtly of their interface design…
The cake is not a pipe
The logo on the second cake is just awesome.
I think the first cake was more tasty as the second one appeared to be.
From the look of things the IE design is very three-dimensional; that’s tough cake design right there (read: challenging but pointless).
No cake before you clear your cookies! *hides*
You start to cut the cake. Part way through the second slice, all-of-a-sudden, you can no longer move the knife nor extract it; you struggle for ten seconds then give up, leaving the knife sticking out of the cake and start to walk away – equally suddenly the cake falls into a heap of crumbs.
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If the cake doesn’t work, reboot it.
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MS will send the biggest cake if they are able to bury Firefox… after they hv done that and got monopoly in browsers they will disband the IE team just as in 2001 … don’t fall for the trap set by Microsoft .. they are the least sporting guys and this cake is just a PR thing ..
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Let’s just all hope that this cake doesn’t have any known remote vulnerabilities.
On that note, congrats on another fine year of aweome coding mozilla team! keep it up!
When IE8 ships, we should have Mozilla parties and build a giant cake as a large distributed team. Then we’ll ship the cake components (on ice) to the IE8 team, along with a Makefile that explains how to link the cake-components together. They can choose dynamic linking (joining the parts as necessary while eating the cake), or static (put the whole cake together first).
We should be careful about versioning of cake parts, since some Microsoft installations will overwrite old cake-parts with new cake-parts, resulting in a permanent loss of cake. And that would suck.
“Congratulations on…” WHAT?!?! “Stripping”?!?! ;-) Jokes aside, it’s nice to see that the IE7 guys have a good sense of humour. I wonder what Mozilla will send them when IE8 is released.
Congrats on a great browser Mozilla. Love you guys!
GDI Lord
ie team is gay for sure. lmao
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Does this mean Mozilla is going to EAT UP the competition?
Maybe poisoning cake :-)
a frozen cake for two years??? it must be toxic…….mmmhhhh….toxic cake
Mozilla should send back an empty box with a note attached that reads, “Tested on IE. 404 Cake Not Found.”
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The cake should have read “Thanks for all the ideas!”
MS will keep sending the cake, to get new ideas as well as open source to copy the stuff from firefox in to there IE :)
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Nice thoughts from the IE team! I think people @ M$ are quite nice, since people are nice in core… However, it’s the policy & politics that come to break this:
I bet the IE team are a bunch of extremely cool and nice people. But that doesn’t make me use IE, which is quite limited, and comes as a imposed (not imposing) monopolistic product…
In all cases, cheers for the good sport-spirit!!!
Oh, and Go Go Go Firefox!!!
Mozilla! Cake or death?!
Send them a bunch of cookies instead ;)
What Mozilla doesn’t know is that the cake contains a powerful laxative!!!
They should not only send them back a recipe, but they should include just the ingredients.
./configure
bake
bake install
Tea and cake or death
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Maybe they are happy because they can surf the Internet more safer, faster and … with FireFox 3.
I don’t see why they wouldn’t rofl I download both browsers equally, but Internet Explorer is annoying since it trys to download itself through auto update
Wow! That is very neat, not to mention nice. I wouldn’t have really expected that to happen. Nice cake, too, I want a slice. :)
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You got to be kidding me.
Those store-bought cakes are always nasty. The frosting is like straight lard flavor, and the cake itself is dry, to say nothing of the plasticy-tasting decorating icing. Just bleh. Not that it wasn’t a nice gesture of the IE Team, I’m just saying those cakes are never good tasting.
Costco in-store cakes are good. Never dry and the icing is fluffy. I believe they make them from scratch. You can also order variations of filling with strawberry jelly or creamcheese (real creamcheese).
They’re also very cheap.. around $10-15 range.