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IE Sends Mozilla a New Cake for Firefox 3

Started by Al Billings · 10 months ago

Sean from Microsoft came by just a few minutes ago to drop off a cake for the Internet Explorer team. As people may recall, the IE team sent Mozilla a cake after Firefox 2 shipped and it seems that they wanted to continue the tradition.
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130 comments

  • Michael

    1 year ago

    That looks like one heck of a delicious cake. Really nice of them!
  • Brian

    1 year ago

    What, no dropping a large "e" on their lawn this time?
  • anon

    1 year ago

    The cake.

    It's a lie
  • Jaime

    1 year ago

    IT'S A TRAP!
  • Lucas

    1 year ago

    The cake is probably poisoned. :D
  • Simon Foxe

    1 year ago

    ... There is no cake.
  • Al Billings

    1 year ago

  • Jack

    1 year ago

    The irony of Sean giving you the cake is thick. :)
  • Al Billings

    1 year ago

    Yes, Jack, I would agree. He got this big grin on his face and said, "I think I need to give this to you" when he came in with it. Seriously, I was just randomly near the door when he came in, passing by. John Lilly, our CEO, happened to be there too.

    I think it is pretty ironic but I was also no longer on the IE team when the last cake was sent. That would have made it more ironic. :-)
  • x

    1 year ago

    By the time the cake arrived, it already had several vulnerabilities in the wild.
  • The Dude Dean

    1 year ago

    Thats the funniest thing I have seen in a long time. I would be very wary of boobie traps in that cake if I were the mozilla team.
  • Alex Vincent

    1 year ago

    When they get around to releasing IE 8, you should return the favor with some apple pies or something.

    A la quirks mode.
  • Al Billings

    1 year ago

    I'm just wondering where the cake from the Safari team is...
  • Alex Vincent

    1 year ago

    Oh, and don't serve it for breakfast:
    http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=14462
  • Jeff

    1 year ago

    Just send one back with the Firefox logo~

    "Yes, it will do well. Thanks for the well wishes"

    ;)
  • pd

    1 year ago

    This can't be. Microsoft is, err, evil innit? :)

    Now if only they could work on their CSS support, starting with border-radius, they might get their karma heading back towards earth from down there near hell.
  • Anon

    1 year ago

    Think how much that cake costs when the ultimately high-salaried IE coders used half a day baking that cake, another half decorating it...
  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau

    1 year ago

    Let them eat cake!
  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau

    1 year ago

    Let the eat cake!
  • web design company

    1 year ago

    Yeah, dont eat it. You'll get a virus, and the cake is full of bugs. Also, the cake was made by fully ignoring cake-making standards.
  • Mauricio Feler Mateus

    1 year ago

    No cookies?
  • BoloRock

    1 year ago

    Some things are a given. The cake most certainly will crash, reboot, do strange things you've not asked it to do.
  • eric

    1 year ago

    The thing is... They don't tell you you can't remove the cake if you don't want it.

    No matter what. The cake is integral to the entire operation of the thing.
  • Luis Albinati

    1 year ago

    Did they give the recipe? Is it open source?
  • Micah

    1 year ago

    The cake doesn't pass the Acid2 test, and if you eat it, your bowels will switch over to quirks mode.
  • Joao

    1 year ago

    comedia...Nice huhuhu
  • Anonymous

    1 year ago

    The mozilla team should return the favor next time a Windows deadline gets missed by sending an almost identical cake that reads: "Congratulations on slipping!" :)
  • Jeremy Nicoll

    1 year ago

    I second the notion of the "slipping" cake!
  • jwill

    1 year ago

    Now if they had just sent a Mac book air to cut it with...
  • Ty Chocolate

    1 year ago

    IE has to be good for SOMETHING.
  • Chris

    1 year ago

    Nice gesture, I don't think Microsoft meant harm with this cake. It is becoming gentler thanks to Mozilla and Google.
  • Manny

    1 year ago

    Hum! At least it didn't blow up.

    But I bet once you remove the icing you're going to get the blue screen of death ;)
  • Paul

    1 year ago

    I like the idea of returning the favor for IE8, but you should provide the recipe with yours! And coordinate with some plugin writers to send candles...
  • cynic

    1 year ago

    You should be sending them a bunch of fortune cookies with Mozilla source code in it or a large cookie with the whole code :-)
  • schorsch68

    1 year ago

    Congratulations to the Guinness-record.
    Is scho alles recht geil, ne?
  • Anon A. Mus

    1 year ago

    Reportedly, the cake crashed from not being able to render the frosting correctly ...
  • Darkk

    1 year ago

    Honestly I thought it was nice The IE team sent them a cake. It shows good sportsmanship on their part in this competitive world of online browsers.

    Kudos to The Firefox Team for the number of downloads and IE Team for the cake.

    Darkk
  • BillinDetroit

    1 year ago

    Just say thank you. No need to bash MSFT ... you guys did a heck of a job. Coder to coder (not company to company) the cake is recognition of your achievements.

    As mentioned, whenever they release a browser that is both innovative and standards compliant, send them a cake / invite them to a picnic ... something ... but recognize that they would have to fight management AND the code to do that. The pat on the back is warranted.

    PS ... I didn't get read your email in time, but I got a look at the link on my Gmail reader and got my dl started before midnight. Barely. I was probably among the final few.

    Congrats ... but next time, give us a bit more warning!
  • sir jorge

    1 year ago

    i haven't downloaded firefox 3, they'll have to make me.

    But a cake?

    Now that's nice.
  • bluestix

    1 year ago

    Poison.

    The oldest trick in the book.
  • Al Billings

    1 year ago

    I thought the oldest trick involved a horse?
  • André Caribé

    1 year ago

    Where is the bomb? :P
    Nice! Applause for IE Team and FF Team!

    \o/
  • Diogenes

    1 year ago

    Prophecy of the Book of Mozilla, 11:9 becoming real ...;-)
  • Daniel Neves Bezerra Lima

    1 year ago

    Ok, I hate IE and Microsoft, but I admmire their attitude doing this. It's like a competition, but they're being nice doing it :)
    but the cake looks horrible :O
  • Daniel

    1 year ago

    É UMA CILADA BINO!!
    ENTÃO CORRE PEDRO!!

    (I'TS A TRAP BINO!! RUN PEDRO!!)
  • Zé da Feira

    1 year ago

    The cake is a fake!
    The fake is a piece of cake!
    Ha-ha-ha; or, ho-ho-ho:
    I believe in Santa Claus!
  • cris

    1 year ago

    Ei gostei do bolo viu, mas eu acho que eles deveriam estar preocupados hahahaha
  • Felipe

    1 year ago

    A poisoned cake!
  • John

    1 year ago

    Becareful, it maybe poison.
  • Gentleman Nosh

    1 year ago

    Don't trust it!

    There is a file in the cake, and a virus in the file!
  • mentioned

    1 year ago

    No one asked yet but...

    can we get a picture of the Firefox 2 cake? How brown is it?
  • Al Billings

    1 year ago

  • Karthik

    1 year ago

    If i know Microsoft and Bill Gates,They probably got all the possible patents and Intellectual property rights on the Cake from the design,recipe,flavor to the cardboard box they mailed it in.
  • Al Billings

    1 year ago

    Karthik,

    Did you miss the memo? Bill Gates has retired from Microsoft...
  • Unsafe Mobile

    1 year ago

    Great Ukrainian colors!
  • CaniBala

    1 year ago

    SORRY IE AND WINDOWS, FIREFOX OWNEDDD!!!!
  • Bizhack

    1 year ago

    The cake certainly looked a little bloated, its add-on didn't really go well with it and the whole thing fell apart when the Firefox team tried to eat it.
  • Vovix

    1 year ago

    Бойтесь маздайцев, торты приносящих!
  • Leonardo Costa

    1 year ago

    Very, very, very nice, attitude of Microsoft, Congratulation all team Firefox.
  • Fertil

    1 year ago

    Muuito bom..xD
  • Cleo Morgause

    1 year ago

    hahahha.. it's funny
  • Lorran Pegoretti

    1 year ago

    looooooooooolll kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
  • Marcelo

    1 year ago

    ... é como aquele velho ditado : "Ja que não pode com eles se juntes a eles".

    Que invenja heim Bill Gates.
  • iWantToKeepAnon

    1 year ago

    The ironic bit is congrats on SHIPPING. The m$ folks are more impressed w/ somebody hitting their SHIPPING date than w/ the software they wrote! :)

    Has m$ EVER hit a shipping date? Or more importantly, has m$ ever hit a shipping date within the YEAR they published.
  • barik

    1 year ago

    pp in "shipping" like TT
  • Fernando F.

    1 year ago

    Hehehehhehe. be careful... =P
  • FromTheAthlantic

    1 year ago

    salty cake? ;-)
  • Ezequielmaster

    1 year ago

    USo o firefox e troco so por outro melhor, ps ainda não achei ehehehe
  • Gabriel Dantas

    1 year ago

    The cake is a lie
    The cake is a lie
    The cake is a lie
    The cake is a lie
    The cake is a lie
    The cake is a lie
  • gabgren

    1 year ago

    is that what we call "Eating your opponent?"
  • cesar

    1 year ago

    Are you sure the cake not sound tic-tac??? :P
  • sergeduardo

    1 year ago

    [...]hey bro, drop this... don´t eat![...]

    argggh!!!

    And now, Bill make a cakes!!!
  • Greg K Nicholson

    1 year ago

    For IE8, we need to get 8 million people to send MS a cookie—with recipe.
  • Dave S

    1 year ago

    wouldn't eat it... full of bugs.
  • Joe Deasy

    1 year ago

    What's the big deal?? They're just saying thanks for all the fresh ideas they can copy... err... I mean new ideas they can think of.
  • felipe

    1 year ago

    Hehee show .
  • Bill McGonigle

    1 year ago

    Nice reference to Fitt's Back Button in FF3 with the over-sized 'e' on the left.

    I sure hope that when IE8 ships, Mozilla sends the IE8 team a cake with a gradient (RGBA) background.
  • Raphael

    1 year ago

    Its the thought that counts. Grats to the mozilla team for getting the best browser currently available out to the masses!
  • senja

    1 year ago

    Congratulation for FF team and don't eat the cake!!
  • Rio

    1 year ago

    i give you a cake .. you give me the source of FF 3.0 hehehe..
  • Oyonk88

    1 year ago

    I think I'll give you pizza,
    it's better than just a cake....

    :)
  • Jean Dannemann

    1 year ago

    the blue "cake" of death
    lol
    congrats to ff team
  • Xandi

    1 year ago

    Normalmente quem atua na área de computação que tem uma visão mais precisa sobre esse assunto, pois algumas táticas da Microsoft são totalmente monopolistas e injustas com outros desenvolvedores. Especificamente, o fato de incluir programas completos em seu Windows, a exemplo do Internet Explorer. Eu sei que a MS é dona do SO Windows e faz o que quiser com ele. Mas o Sistema Operacional é apenas um intermediário entre os aplicativos e o hardware do computador e deve ser o MAIS DISCRETO possível para o usuário. A Microsoft entope o Windows de MEDIA PLAYER, MOVIE MAKER, INTERNET EXPLORER e outros aplicativos que não fazem parte do KERNEL do sistema e nem são peças básicas fundamentais para o seu funcionamento. Isso faz uma concorrência desleal com outros desenvolvedores de softwares aplicativos.

    Mesmo assim, a Microsoft é dona do Windows e faz o que quiser. Ela não vai ser trouxa e a vantagem que tem de colocar tudo de barbada da sua própria marca no seu próprio sistema, ainda mais o NAVEGADOR WEB que é uma peça chave e estratégica.

    Isso que é uma merda para NÓS USUÁRIOS. Pois freia totalmente o crescimento de outras empresas desenvolvedoras de aplicativos. E impede o aparecimento de soluções melhores.

    O INTERNET EXPLORER é o melhor exemplo. Ficou ANOS e mais ANOS, pelos menos uns CINCO ANOS, sem novas atualizações. A Microsoft se acomodou pois não tinha ninguém nem fazendo cocegas para ameaçar o reinado, pois qual usuário iria se incomodar de baixar+instalar algum outro se o EXPLORER já vem integrado no Windows, sendo inclusive impossível desinstala-lo !!! Passamos anos usando a bosta do Internet Explorer 6.

    Precisou aparecer o FIREFOX, muito melhor mesmo que o Internet Explorer, para fazer frente, fazer com que as pessoas perdessem tempo baixando e instalando um navegador novo em paralelo. Só assim, a Microsoft lançou o Internet Explorer 7.

    Hoje o Firefox consegue a façanha de 18% do mercado, mesmo que a Microsoft venha com o Internet Explorer integrado no Windows, fazendo que a grande, gigante maioria leiga dos usuários nem se importem com isso e continuem usando o lixo desenvolvido pela empresa do Bill Gates. Usam porque nem tem noção que possa existir algo melhor. Nem tem noção que o Explorer é um navegador, para a maioria o icone do "e" significa acessar a Internet e pronto....

    Uso Windows, uso Linux, uso Mac OS, antes usava MSX, Amiga e vários outros computadores. O mundo da informática não é só Microsoft e ela não é nem tão boa e nem tão ruim... o Windows é muito bom para usar em casa, mas para navegar na Internet coloquem o INTERNET EXPLORER NO LIXO e usem FIREFOX !!!
  • Stacy

    1 year ago

    Lol, it's just sweet))
  • Walljet

    1 year ago

    Is there a mac-version of this cake?

    Walljet.
  • mth

    1 year ago

    You should accept cookies for the originating site only!
  • Not Just A PC Tech

    1 year ago

    To be a Mac compatible cake it would have to have come from Intel.

    But seriously, the only way they got away with using a semi-accurate IE logo on the cake was to have Bill G. retire. (Good thing he did cause that old cke looked horrid, not to mention deadly)
  • Veronica

    1 year ago

    Congratulations! You deserve this!
    Mozilla is the best!
  • Lellis

    1 year ago

    Xandi on June 20th, 2008 1:17 am

    Falou e disse Xandi.
    Faço minhas as suas palavras!!
    "Coloquem o INTERNET EXPLORER NO LIXO e usem FIREFOX !"
  • BoloRock

    1 year ago

    Did it come with a EULA?
  • Michael Johnson

    1 year ago

    You normally find something else planted on a rivals lawn such as a large turd. Nice to see rivals can be civil about things.
  • Laptop Tech

    1 year ago

    I think its time for Mozilla to send a followup cake to Microsoft. What do you guys think?
  • Al Billings

    1 year ago

    They have to ship IE8 first...
  • Rodrigo

    1 year ago

    Was it poisoned?
  • daniel

    1 year ago

    Beware of geeks bearing gifts
  • ninom

    1 year ago

    beware, this cake is made of bugs!
  • Shelon Padmore

    1 year ago

    How nice of them!
  • Personal Trainer

    1 year ago

    This is interesting... I would think that IE people would be scared. IE even on my vista PC is terrible compared to firefox. A cake probably has a secret spy camera in it!
  • Simon

    1 year ago

    You guys @ Mozilla should send a cake with the Firefox Logo as well as send along the written recipe (source code) to MS when they release I.E 8 so they would get a cake in return as well as the "source code" to be able to modify hahahaha.

    Now to get serious Well Done Microsoft of putting your differences behind you to send a cake out of good gesture. Why can't you Microsoft be nice yo more rivals. I guess this is just the stepping ground.

    Long Live FireFox!!!!!
  • Vexhin

    1 year ago

    Mda, i dazhe zdes' reklamirujut IE.
    A voobsche, ostroumno.
    Мда, и даже здесь рекламируют ИЕ.
    А вообще, остроумно.
    Hm, and even there is reclam of IE. (excuse me my english).
  • Vexhin

    1 year ago

    And in general, witty.
  • Bunicrin

    1 year ago

    Realmente, o time IE tem que se curvar diante do time da Mozilla. O Firefox é muito melhor...

    Estou muito feliz com o resultado. Parabéns a todos do Time Mozilla!
  • dan

    1 year ago

    Underneath the icing, it's the same cake Microsoft released for Firefox 2.
  • Vexhin

    1 year ago

    А, когда выйдет IE8 разработчикам Firefox'a надо бы подарить им свой торт с изображением Лиса.
  • SparcMan

    1 year ago

    I'm concerned about the license agreement label they must have had to remove to open the cake box. There's no telling what the Mozilla team agreed to by opening that box!
  • ddr

    1 year ago

    congrats to the mozilla on ff3 for my fav browser and a pat on the back to microsoft for being good sports

    even though if i first saw it i would hold microsoft to a standard of poisoning the cake to get rid of competition (paranoia setting in)

    anyway long live the mozilla team and best wishes to microsoft maybe you can dig your company out of its suck hole
  • ddr

    1 year ago

    also sounds like business plan #11 mess with your competitor's minds
  • Bull3t

    1 year ago

    The cake is a lie.
  • Not A Microsoft Coustomer Serv

    1 year ago

    The Cake is A Lie!
    The Cake is A Lie!
    The Cake Is A Lie!

    .... The Cake is Not Vanilla We Tricked You!!
    It's Chocolate!!
    We Are So Evil!!..
  • Pete

    1 year ago

    Yeah but I bet they wouldn't give you the recipe if you asked for it...
  • Plínio

    1 year ago

    Mais uma vez a Mozilla comeu parte da Microsoft...hehehe.
  • Martin

    1 year ago

    Troja is everywhere...
  • Rich

    1 year ago

    lol.. I bet they can't even get a cake mixture right. it'll be full of eggshell.. you'll have to upgrade to service cake 3
  • Website Design

    1 year ago

    Awesome cake! How good natured the IE team is, who would've thought lol.
  • Michael Dakwa

    1 year ago

    so are u guys keepin this one in the fridge too? Thts like freezing the ie...awwww i get it, thts how come ie is "frozen" whilst firefox keeps advancing...TAKE IT THE NORTH POLE!!!! ...jus jokin
  • spotter

    1 year ago

    IE 7eam = clever
  • Gadgets

    1 year ago

    Hehehe check out the No. 7 instead of "t" (team)
    Love it :)
    Anyhow long live firefox
  • Al Billings

    1 year ago

    That's actually a cursive 'T'. :-)
  • Dimash

    1 year ago

    Fear the M$ Geeks bearing gifts! :)
  • Dita

    1 year ago

    It's neat how they can make the ring around 'e' stand! I'd ask how, but I fear the cake is not open source :P

    Great sense of humour, that cake is obviously a lie!
  • sumit

    1 year ago

    Funny thing
    IE has good sense of humor.
  • JanR

    1 year ago

    It is probably a genuine gesture. After all, if it weren't for Firefox's successes, the world would still be stuck with the tired IE6. There wouldn't be an IE Team - or version IE7 or the upcoming IE8. So the success of Firefox is probably job-security for the IE team. They have a lot to be thankful for :-)
  • Connor

    1 year ago

    I hate firefox. i also hate internet explorer. i hate safari. i hate avant browser. The best browsers currently available are SeaMonkey and Netscape navigator > which sadly is not alive anymore. The cake has a bomb in it. it will go off when internet explorer 8 is released. I downloaded internet explorer 8 beta to see if they changed anything. they didn't same ol'IE.
  • smart_guy

    1 year ago

    FIREFOX !
    is better !
    Firefox Rocks !
  • Jad

    1 year ago

    Regrestration key come with the cake ???

    Better not eat it before you get the security update
  • Ceol_Agus_Craic

    12 months ago

    Maybe the cake is more useful than the browser! (or, perhaps, are there any worms inside the cake as well as the browser?!)
    Make a "HCCP" control and you will get the response :D
  • HyperX-Systems

    12 months ago

    ITS ALL A TRICK!! don't eat it once you do it will infect everything and they will use it to steal the source code of FF3!!!... oh wait... damn...
  • Nikunj Bhatt

    12 months ago

    is the cake genuine?
    the cake may contain vulnerabilities like ie

    what firefox team will send on ie8 launch?
    (ans: may be a FIRED (dead) FOX.)
    anyway, just kidding. ;), good sportsmanship bet ie and ff
  • Luther Snow

    12 months ago

    Nice... I'm going to refrain from adding to the massive compilation of IE jokes, and just be happy that the cake made it on time for it's expected delivery date. For once, microsoft delivered something on time. Ain't that something?...
  • Ve

    11 months ago

    Please let us know when you find the hidden Easter Egg....

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