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I notice that Safari is hilariously missing, especially since it would match IE8 on a number of the features they're claiming are exclusive to it.

The whole endeavor is rather scurrilous, since they've clearly glommed separate features together for no real purpose other than to put a checkmark next to IE and not next to FF or Chrome (particularly the "reliability" item).

What a joke.

This is why people hate Microsoft. It's not that FF fanatics don't spread FUD too. It's just that Microsoft seems to think that we're too dumb to recognize their obvious machinations.

If they only spent as much time and effort making their products not suck, as they spend trying to pretend that they don't suck, then maybe they'd get some respect.

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It is not aimed at people like you. It is aimed at people who know enough to install a browser, but not much more.

Sure, the marketing info isn't aimed at us. But our impression of Microsoft, and what their reputation is, is not just based on the things with which they deign to target us.

And, even though it's not targeted at us, it's targeted at people we know. If you're anything like me or my co-workers, that means that our friends' and families' browser problems are also our problems :P So Microsoft is actually making the lives of tech savvy people harder via FUD like this.

The recommendation of people like us counts for a lot. We are the geeks that install and support friends' and families' computers, and if I know that if I get the family to use browser X, I'll have fewer tech support calls, then they're using browser X.

"Web standards", "Developer tools" and "Manageability" are not exactly aimed at Joe Sixpack.

Yes they are, in the same way that cleaning agents talk about molecular bonds and other things customers don't understand. Making something sound overly professional scientific is a great sales tactic.

life is too short to hate anyone.

Life's too short to use IE.

Life's too short to use Microsoft.

To be sincere, their keyboards and mice are top notch. Too bad they insist . Their hardware is excellent since the Z-80 SoftCard I used in my Apple II. And they had a 6 MHz one as well... With it, an Apple II was the fastest CP/M box around.

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