Microsoft pays yes men to spread more FUD about Firefox, Chrome, and Opera

Since Microsoft cannot promote IE on it’s own merits:

They have apparently paid for another biased opinion from a bunch of spin doctoring suck ups, to try and do damage control on Internet Explorer 8, the slowest and most brain damaged browser on Windows in a fair benchmark conducted by myself, comparing IE 8’s (lack of) performance compared to its competitors.

(Note: Firefox 2 and 1 have been unsupported for a while, I just threw them in as a baseline, I later ran IE 7 through and got a score of 435, the same performance of Firefox 1 from early 2004)

There are simply no lies that can cover up Internet Explorer’s inherent insecurity, its bad performance, and Microsoft’s outright contempt for established web standards.

This review from Jingo Associates Janco Associates is poorly written and trips over itself several times.

“So far user acceptance of Vista has been slowed by the lack if user acceptance for the new OS.”

Uhhhm, and statistically, the biggest cause of redundancy are redundancies.

“An added kicker is those who move to Vista can more readily have multiple browsers on their systems or switch from one to the other quickly and with little pain.”

What exactly stops me from installing Firefox and Chrome and Opera and picking a default on XP, or Windows 2000 for that matter? If anything Vista makes it harder to keep your defaults as Internet Explorer keeps trying to steal them all back while you’re not looking, and instead of one menu to choose your default (XP), Vista has no less than five.

“The cost of doing that is minimal.”

Yeah, Firefox, Opera, and Chrome are all free, Internet Explorer is built into the price of Windows.

(Fact: Microsoft increased the price it charged for Windows 95 to OEMs by $10 after IE was “integrated” See: United States v. Microsoft)

“Google is a challenge for Microsoft to face — so far Microsoft continues to outpace Google and beats both Google Desktop and Google Chrome.”

Internet Explorer can’t beat any other browser currently in support.

As for Windows built-in search, that’s integrated so more people have it, no shit.

Microsoft’s mighty 5% share of the internet search market (down from 9% in 2007) after dumping several years and millions of dollars into it, not even counting the user-bribing search “incentive” programs will surely make Google cower and tremble at the almighty Windows Live Search Hijacker. :) (Yes, they’ve resorted to borderline search hijacking, even of your Firefox and preferences when you install IE 8 or Windows Live Essentials if you slip up and push the wrong button)

“In addition, IE 8 is feature rich and a step ahead of the other browsers.  Both Firefox and Chrome has major defects which limit their usefulness on all sites.  Several of these defects are highlighted in this White Paper.”

Yes, IE’s ActiveX enables drive-by spyware infestations and the lack of an advertising blocker is also a major plus for the chowderheads that want to make the web nigh unusable and install all kinds of malicious software.

I hope Firefox gets cracking on copying these innovations post haste. /sarcasm

The study concludes by offering no explanation or reconciliation of why Internet Explorer has lost 10% of its users in the past year since Microsoft has “stabilized” the situation and its competitors are so “crippled”.

Amusingly, they also admit that only 18% of the operating system market is comprised of Vista users, after having been out for 3 years.

I suppose even the most flagrant lies are covered with a grain of truth, but clearly you are all too stupid to know what you want, now kindly go back to Microsoft, show’s over, nothing to see here, pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.

Don’t forget to tune in for my next review of IE 8 where I compare the browser to a steaming pile of dog shit. (Spoiler Alert: The dog shit wins)

IE 8 fails