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Microsoft fail. Their stupidity never fails to amuse.

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Posted 18 November 2009 - 08:41 PM

To watch the video about IE9 "Standards" and "Interoperability" you need to install Microsoft Silverlight

http://channel9.msdn...teroperability/

I think MS does not understand the word irony ... at all.

Hey. MS web team! There is a reason we web designers despise IE. Are you ready? It's because your "support" of standards sucks! IE still not supporting border-radius drives me mental. I have an idea. Instead of your stupid-bass-ackwards rendering engine, use WebKit!

PS. Then again, it is the same day that Microsoft chief software architect Ray Ozzie claimed "Mobile apps aren't an important factor in the success of a smartphone platform." Uh, fail.
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Posted 18 November 2009 - 08:47 PM

Preach it, brother.
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When there's a multiplayer version, I'm going to be on Frost's team. Well, except he doesn't seem to actually need a team...I mean, what's the point? "Hey look, it's Frost and His Merry Gang of Useless Hangers-On!" Or something.
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Posted 19 November 2009 - 04:03 AM

MS doesn't care about standards; MS cares about making money.
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Posted 19 November 2009 - 09:11 AM

IE? What is this AYE EEE? It is not in my dictionary.

I have boycotted it, and no longer develop any more changes to make things 'work' on that heap of trash IE. If someone is stupid enough to use IE, then well, they are used to websites looking like crap then, and I won't try to bend over backwards to make things finally work right in IE, while sacrificing so many things in other web browsers.

IE ... pfft...
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Posted 19 November 2009 - 02:17 PM

One of my favourite fails, MS Speech Recognition
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Posted 19 November 2009 - 03:11 PM

border-radius is the least of their problems.
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Posted 20 November 2009 - 12:08 AM

View PostSneaky Snake, on November 19th 2009, 02:17 PM, said:

One of my favourite fails

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Posted 20 November 2009 - 09:32 AM

Maybe this is why Hal wouldn't open the pod bay doors.
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Posted 20 November 2009 - 01:05 PM

View Postthe Battle Cat, on November 20th 2009, 10:32 AM, said:

Maybe this is why Hal wouldn't open the pod bay doors.

I thought it was an embarrassing rash that he was trying to keep hidden.
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Posted 23 November 2009 - 02:25 PM

Speaking of Microsoft fail, it appears they're beginning a new campaign of paying companies to delist themselves from Google and instead use Bing.

How very Microsoft. Your pathetic POS product can't compete, so you just buy your competitors, or if you can't buy your competitors, you bribe people not to use them.
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When there's a multiplayer version, I'm going to be on Frost's team. Well, except he doesn't seem to actually need a team...I mean, what's the point? "Hey look, it's Frost and His Merry Gang of Useless Hangers-On!" Or something.
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Posted 23 November 2009 - 03:41 PM

Bing isn't bad..

Google is still better.

The other day, I had a customer tell me that he really likes ask.com. *snicker*
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Posted 23 November 2009 - 03:57 PM

Maybe, I would hope they've improved since they launched... I tried Bing out a couple months ago or so and it was a very nostalgic journey back to using InfoSeek in the 1990s. That is, a buttload of useless results in which you have to look closely for one or two that might be useful. :bleedingeyes:
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When there's a multiplayer version, I'm going to be on Frost's team. Well, except he doesn't seem to actually need a team...I mean, what's the point? "Hey look, it's Frost and His Merry Gang of Useless Hangers-On!" Or something.
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Posted 24 November 2009 - 11:34 AM

I recall when a Microsoft rep came to give a demo of Windows 3.0 where I worked. The poor woman demonstrating
it spent about 15 minutes trying to get it to start up and finally determined someone hadn't copied over all the files
required to her system. So she played a VCR of Bill Gates talking about it and then asked if there were any
questions afterwords.

Tough way to make a first impression...
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