Microsoft sends Mozilla another cake for Firefox 4 release

User Comments: 44

1. March 23, 2011 5:47 AM
   

   Kibaruk, TechSpot Paladin, said:

   "Did Mozilla consider Microsoft's marketing budget when it began planning to change its development cycle?"

   I can't stop laughing ahhahaha. Go Mozilla!

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2. March 23, 2011 5:57 AM
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   Steve said:

   I wonder how it tastes, looks alright? They probably have to set their browsers to use Bing before they can have a slice though.

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3. March 23, 2011 6:45 AM
   Guest said:

   Most probably they got their hands on a new cyanide shipment those days .. )

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4. March 23, 2011 6:50 AM
   

   stewi0001 said:

   wait why isnt someone sueing this time?

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5. March 23, 2011 7:12 AM
   

   Arris said:

   Damn my US patent on "Cakes with browser release references in icing/frosting" didn't get approved in time

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6. March 23, 2011 7:22 AM
   

   Burty117, TechSpot Chancellor, said:

   This story isn't an early april fools joke or anything? Its a little hard to believe! well I guess its a nice gesture but still, I do want to try a piece of the cake though!

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7. March 23, 2011 7:30 AM
   NeoFlux said:

   burty117 said:

   This story isn't an early april fools joke or anything? Its a little hard to believe! well I guess its a nice gesture but still, I do want to try a piece of the cake though!

   I'm not touching anything with a big blue "e" letter on it, god forbid putting in mouth...

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8. March 23, 2011 7:53 AM
   Guest said:

   I guess it now becomes clear why Mozilla is releasing so many new versions faster. All that free cake, who wouldn't??

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9. March 23, 2011 7:59 AM
   

   Mizzou said:

   I think it's cool, nice to see some good natured rivalries and competition.

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10. March 23, 2011 8:02 AM
    Guest said:

    Thats awesome that they send firefox a cake. Even though they are competers, they still are civil to each other.

    Since the cake is from microsoft, I wonder if the cake has any bugs :p

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11. March 23, 2011 8:35 AM
    

    Raswan said:

    I hope we can all appreciate, too, that the text is clearly handwritten. That means a) the ie team not only bought the cake, but wrote the message themselves, or b) whichever bakery they use has a twelve-year old on writing duty. Either way, one can appreciate the irony of a software giant at the forefront of the tech industry sending a competitor a cake not with a rendered 3-D photo airbrushed on, or clip art text, but that looks like it was written with a quill under the sputtering light of a whale-oil lamp.

    Wonder if they sent one to Google too...

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12. March 23, 2011 8:40 AM
    

    Leeky, TechSpot Moderator, said:

    Wonder if they sent one to Google too...

    I think they got the poisoned one this year...

    Still surprised no patents, or copryrights have been broken in the production of this cake... Nobody is suing each other either... Shocking!

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13. March 23, 2011 9:13 AM
    

    Benny26, TechSpot Paladin, said:

    I wonder if the cake came with a card stating the terms and conditions of consumption?

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14. March 23, 2011 9:16 AM
    Guest said:

    Microsoft appreciates the free R&D work Mozilla has done for them.

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15. March 23, 2011 9:21 AM
    ebolamonkey3 said:

    Speaking of which, when does Mozilla's contract w/ Google run out? If M$ can persuade Mozilla to use Bing as its default search engine instead of Google, that'd be a huge victory for Microsoft.

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16. March 23, 2011 9:39 AM
    Guest said:

    Mozilla's cotract with Google runs through 2011.

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17. March 23, 2011 9:43 AM
    Guest said:

    The cake should say: 'Thanks for compelling us to release a (somewhat) decent version of Internet Explorer, which had not happened between Netscape's demise and Firefox's rise'.

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18. March 23, 2011 9:49 AM
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    Rick, TechSpot Staff, said:

    Guest said:

    Thats awesome that they send firefox a cake. Even though they are competers, they still are civil to each other.

    I'm sure the cake is sent as a tongue-in-cheek gag and most certainly not intended to be a friendly gesture.

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19. March 23, 2011 9:56 AM
    

    Leeky, TechSpot Moderator, said:

    I'm sure the cake is sent as a tongue-in-cheek gag and most certainly not intended to be a friendly gesture.

    I thought the same...

    Can't have your cake, and eat it....

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20. March 23, 2011 10:26 AM
    

    Puiu said:

    "The cake is a lie!" ^_^

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21. March 23, 2011 10:31 AM
    Guest said:

    Interesting that both cursive P's are not closed off so they could pass as T's...

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22. March 23, 2011 10:35 AM
    Guest said:

    "Let them eat cake!"

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23. March 23, 2011 10:41 AM
    gwailo247, TechSpot Chancellor, said:

    Its really a trojan cake. The E is a very powerful listening device.

    So the cakes are coming out of the R&D, not the marketing budget.

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24. March 23, 2011 10:44 AM
    

    Leeky, TechSpot Moderator, said:

    Its really a trojan cake. The E is a very powerful

    Whoa..... Maybe the IE Team want to steal more Mozilla ideas again... Maybe thats it.. its the cake, the cake has ears!

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25. March 23, 2011 11:10 AM
    

    Cota said:

    Arris said:

    Damn my US patent on "Cakes with browser release references in icing/frosting" didn't get approved in time

    So you are the one who asked for the patent 1st D: well at least i have a shot for my patent of photos of cakes sightly rotated counter clockwise whit a probable fingered upper left corner on a wooden-like bi color dish!

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