Re: [CRTech] Microsoft buys Firefox! *HOAX ALERT

[Alan Kilgore <Engineer@wrvm.org>]

Yes!

I suppose it took a while to filter down to us since The 
InformationWeek story about it 
(http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=193700190) 
was dated Nov 9th:

"Tongue-in-cheek Web sites are claiming that Microsoft Corp. 
purchased 
<http://www.techweb.com/encyclopedia/defineterm.jhtml?term=Mozilla&x=&y=>Mozilla 
Corp.'s Firefox browser and then renamed it "Microsoft 
<http://www.techweb.com/encyclopedia/defineterm.jhtml?term=Firefox&x=&y=>Firefox 
2007 Professional Edition." However, when you try to 
<http://www.techweb.com/encyclopedia/defineterm.jhtml?term=download&x=&y=>download 
the new 
<http://www.techweb.com/encyclopedia/defineterm.jhtml?term=Web%20browser&x=&y=>Web 
browser you actually get a 
<http://www.techweb.com/encyclopedia/defineterm.jhtml?term=copy&x=&y=>copy 
of the Redmond, Wash. developer's for-real Internet Explorer 7.

"Two sites -- <http://www.msfirefox.com>www.msfirefox.com and 
www.msfirefox.net -- both direct to similar parodies that tout the 
newly purchased browser as "It's better now like seriously" and sport 
IE 7-esque features, including one dubbed "Cut Away Effect," which 
disables rendering of nine-tenths of a page to "save system 
resources." It also claims: "This is not a bug." "


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Alan Kilgore, CPBE
WRVM Chief Engineer