hutcheson - 12:04 am on Oct 22, 2009 (gmt 0)

>I wonder how much of the "bad" coding was intentional to sow down FF.

I defer to nobody in willingness to attribute bad motives to Microsoft: they are, IMO, lawyers and lawyer-spawn, although serpents are physiologically incapable of stooping, there is no depth to which they would not slither.

But I have no trouble attributing this particular issue to stupidity rather than malice: after all, they have these kind of security, reliability, and performance problems ALL THE TIME on their own software.

>I can just see a Microsoft campaign telling you to

>1) update your machine
>2) open Firefox
>3) open IE
>4) type this URL into both browsers
>5) hit enter on both browsers
>6) See! IE loads faster than FF

>What they don't tell you is their plugin from the "update your machine" step slows down FF.

In THIS matter you're attributing far too much honesty to Microsoft. This is similar to what they do regularly. But only similar. Step 6 is always stated "See! IE RUNS faster than FF!" Even though they're only measuring LOAD time, they advertise it as RUN time.

As I say: there are few depths to which they have not already slithered.