Comments on: Microsoft: Would you like Firefox with your new PC?

By: Long Zheng

Long Zheng — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 14:40:53 +0000

@Matt Sharpe: Fire up the Facebook acquisition rumors again!

By: Matt Sharpe

Matt Sharpe — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 14:38:14 +0000

Bizarre.
Found this today which reminded me of your article. MSN’s Halo 3 downloads provide images for desktop wallpaper, WLM, and Windows Live Spaces. But the images for Spaces have filenames such as “Facebook_Pics_200×200_2.jpg”.
Facebook?!
I wouldn’t expect Microsoft to do something like that.
http://halo3.msn.com/downloads/en/default.htm

By: Anthony

Anthony — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 12:38:18 +0000

edit: dubious. im tired!

By: Anthony

Anthony — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 12:37:07 +0000

the whole thing looks pretty dodgy. i mean everything within the OS is squished and out of proportion.
This reminds me of that Canon printer ad Long posted month(s)? ago where a user was editing photos on a computer using Canon software which clearly was running Windows blinds instead of realVista (and to make things worse the Canon software adapted the Mac OS X gui!) Though this coming from the motherland itself it is a duvious submission indeed.

By: imran

imran — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 07:14:39 +0000

It is still hillarious.

By: mVPstar

mVPstar — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 03:34:31 +0000

If you look closely, IE is still there in the taskbar. Also, all the browser windows happen to be IE windows.

By: Andre Da Costa

Andre Da Costa — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 23:03:06 +0000

Uh, the last time I checked, Microsoft is not a dictatorship, actually the Company’s that develop those (third-party) applications are Microsoft Partners and there is a reason why its compatible with Windows, particular, Vista, to give consumers choice. As Robert notes, thats why the Windows ecosystem is more superior to OS X and Linux. Actually, Linux can only dream of having some of those apps on its desktop.

If you check certain parts of Apples website or read magazines such as Macworld or Layers you will see advertisements with Apple displays showing Microsoft Office in the Dock, even Internet Explorer 5 even though MS discontinued it a few years ago.

By: DCMonkey

DCMonkey — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 22:52:11 +0000

All that and they didn’t even bother putting some interesting looking gadgets on the Sidebar.

By: peacho

peacho — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 21:05:26 +0000

Of course, the irony is, I go to their site to look at it, and so when I click on the pictures to get a better look, what does it boot up to open the .tif?

Why Apple QuickTime of course. This is in Firefox, too.

By: Albert

Albert — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 18:19:42 +0000

@Atomusk: LMAO!