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Published: June 17th, 2008
Microsoft’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!
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June 18th, 2008 at 12:44 am
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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SeaFoxJune 19th, 2008 at 3:31 am
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.
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goodiesJune 19th, 2008 at 10:09 am
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.
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June 18th, 2008 at 1:40 am
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. ;)
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June 18th, 2008 at 2:36 am
Damn. And this had to appear when I was hungry. :x
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June 18th, 2008 at 3:34 am
We are such a gracious group!
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June 18th, 2008 at 4:00 am
Great Microsoft, and great team of IE 7
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June 18th, 2008 at 5:38 am
This time they used a much bigger logo… what a waste… now you have a smaller amount of eatable cake left :lol:
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BlarenJune 18th, 2008 at 6:59 pm
It’s decoration bloat (aka eye candy)…what did you expect.
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DustinJune 18th, 2008 at 10:21 pm
@ Dreamwave
Somehow that seems very expected. ;)
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June 18th, 2008 at 6:21 am
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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June 18th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
The cake is a lie
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steve ballmerJune 18th, 2008 at 7:31 pm
The cake is a cake
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Dave WujcikJune 18th, 2008 at 7:57 pm
The cake is a pie!
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TortoiseJune 18th, 2008 at 8:28 pm
The lye is in the cake
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through the portalJune 18th, 2008 at 8:45 pm
No, the cake is a lie!
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Richard StallmanJune 18th, 2008 at 9:12 pm
The lie is a cake.
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steve ballmerJune 19th, 2008 at 2:12 am
A lie is a lie and a cake is a cake
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KevinJune 18th, 2008 at 9:32 pm
Where’d my companion cube go!?!?
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NicJune 19th, 2008 at 5:38 am
The cake is a spy!
(they still don’t get the open source paradigm)
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June 18th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
I wonder if it has as many bugs as Internet Explorer has :-\
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DaveJune 19th, 2008 at 2:11 am
It will if you leave it on the counter long enough…
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June 18th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
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” :)
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June 18th, 2008 at 5:17 pm
But how do we know that cake isn´t poisoned :-o
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June 18th, 2008 at 6:18 pm
You can’t have your cake and eat it.
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June 18th, 2008 at 6:24 pm
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.
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June 18th, 2008 at 6:32 pm
om nom nom nom
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June 18th, 2008 at 6:57 pm
The reason they don’t include the recipe it’s because it’s not open to the public. Mozilla licenses their cake using the GPL.
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ZellJune 19th, 2008 at 5:20 am
lol I agree 100%
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June 18th, 2008 at 7:41 pm
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!
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June 18th, 2008 at 7:42 pm
Don’t eat it! It’s poisoned!
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June 18th, 2008 at 8:45 pm
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.
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DanJune 18th, 2008 at 9:52 pm
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.
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PrzemekJune 19th, 2008 at 2:42 pm
Dan, it is present in Windows but MS advertise for using… And for all marketing stuff like “Windows comes with superior web browser”!
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June 18th, 2008 at 9:14 pm
Good the see their cake design has all the subtly of their interface design…
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June 18th, 2008 at 9:17 pm
The cake is not a pipe
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June 18th, 2008 at 9:22 pm
The logo on the second cake is just awesome.
I think the first cake was more tasty as the second one appeared to be.
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June 18th, 2008 at 9:39 pm
From the look of things the IE design is very three-dimensional; that’s tough cake design right there (read: challenging but pointless).
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June 18th, 2008 at 9:51 pm
No cake before you clear your cookies! *hides*
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June 18th, 2008 at 9:57 pm
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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June 18th, 2008 at 11:50 pm
If the cake doesn’t work, reboot it.
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June 19th, 2008 at 12:13 am
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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June 19th, 2008 at 1:05 am
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!
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June 19th, 2008 at 1:55 am
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.
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June 19th, 2008 at 3:02 am
“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
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June 19th, 2008 at 3:28 am
ie team is gay for sure. lmao
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June 19th, 2008 at 4:49 am
Does this mean Mozilla is going to EAT UP the competition?
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June 19th, 2008 at 5:43 am
Maybe poisoning cake :-)
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June 19th, 2008 at 6:14 am
Was the cake poisoned? ;D
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June 19th, 2008 at 7:41 am
a frozen cake for two years??? it must be toxic…….mmmhhhh….toxic cake
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June 19th, 2008 at 9:38 am
Mozilla should send back an empty box with a note attached that reads, “Tested on IE. 404 Cake Not Found.”
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June 19th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
The cake should have read “Thanks for all the ideas!”
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krishnaJune 19th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
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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June 19th, 2008 at 2:46 pm
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!!!
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June 19th, 2008 at 2:47 pm
Mozilla! Cake or death?!
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June 19th, 2008 at 3:19 pm
Send them a bunch of cookies instead ;)
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June 19th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
What Mozilla doesn’t know is that the cake contains a powerful laxative!!!
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June 19th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
They should not only send them back a recipe, but they should include just the ingredients.
./configure
bake
bake install
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June 19th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
Tea and cake or death
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July 1st, 2008 at 4:00 pm
Maybe they are happy because they can surf the Internet more safer, faster and … with FireFox 3.
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July 4th, 2008 at 11:44 am
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
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