@JRo: Thank you captain obvious.

techwiz140

"This cake will self destruct in 10 seconds"

techwiz140

@Carmen is VERY sick: Who cares about Firefox or Safari, you're the only vixen we need here on Giz.

Nintenboy01

@thepeopleselbow: What about Windows Me?
(couldn't resist)

derevirn

@Kaiser-Machead's got LindsayJoy's cookies on the SuperDrive: I agree with you. That is the only logical explaination.

techwiz140

@Vonn64: I love your dialog, i would have done the same thing, eating the cake that is.

HawkSkater0

@gamecrazychris:

It's even faster with Adblocking. You'd be surprised how slow all those external ad servers make a website.

MichaelScrip

@scarbrtj: ;^) Glad to see somebody remembers this craptacular MS video.

bosskev

Why no inline PDF viewing... and I don't like plug-ins. That's like selling someone an empty box and telling them well you can fill it with whatever you want. Yes, you can skin Firefox but the default theme is like some futuristic piece of plastic...yeh, it's cool but I would would rather walk on a wood floor that is safari then a plastic piece of re-recycled crap.

mrsalty

@R2B2: Well, telling us about it took 16 seconds...so...

92BuickLeSabre

I like his expression. "I'm about to toss this to the dumpster."

Khuluna

@gamecrazychris: And Safari loaded it in 1.8, WebKit in 1.5!

The Magnificen7

Microsoft will probably issue a patch for it in the near future..

chidomes08

Loaded with ExLax no doubt! Don't eat it you fools!

JRo

@gamecrazychris: Wow! What are you going to do with all that time saved?!?

; )

R2B2

Their bakery ecosystem rocks.

scarbrtj

@CCCombobreaker: Before my MBP I had Safari up and running on my Windows laptop...It's NICE. I loved it, still do. Safari, IMHO, is way better then Firefox.

Carmen is VERY sick

They should have sent cookies.

TeraFlopper

@tex1ntux:

Safari for windows is so awful that they have not earned an internet explorer cake.

CCCombobreaker

@xint: don't worry every other fucktard at microsoft still thinks that's the case.

Paradise

Good sports Microsoft is!

Unknown2U

Apparently the E stands for Church of England.

92BuickLeSabre

As they were slicing it...things were smooth. Then they got to the middle of it and it was frozen (just like every fucking Microsoft product)

Carmen is VERY sick

I was mostly an IE person, until I got Firefox 3 and Gizmodo loaded in 3.4 seconds! IE took 4.8 seconds.

gamecrazychris

Is there a better metaphor for Firefox eating IE's market share?

Hardcore1

Firefox 2 Cake: Not poisoned.
Firefox 3 Cake: Not poisoned.
Safari for Windows Cake: ...

tex1ntux

@exkon:

Mozilla is based in California.

Cool cake btw.

CCCombobreaker

AHA! THAT'S the new strategy! Instead of cutting off their air supply, they're clogging their arteries! Call the EU Competition folks!!!!

Mandatory_Field

They said the cake was delivered personally...Is the Firefox team based somewhere in Redmond, WA?

exkon

hahahahaha

maybe in the firefox 4 or 5 MS will send a poison cake

AndersonBMX

Microsoft's Plan for Net Domination.

Step One: Stuff their mouths.

Step Two: Buy their asses!

Sottren

They need another series of pictures with the Firefox red panda/fox completely pouncing on and devouring that like a leopard onto its helpless prey.

WidescreenJohn

@max.goedjen: Seriously, I wouldn't take a bite of that cake if you paid me to.

sw_white

@DirtySocks:
hahaha

MS: Have a cake!

FF: O thanks! *start eating it*

MS: HAHA! ITS POISONED!

FF: Oh.. Really? What kind?

MS: ...

FS: *Keeps eating cake*

Vonn64

IE's marketshare is a lie.

OMG!!! Ponies!!!

Wonder if the Safari and Opera teams plan anything similar?

Nintenboy01

@DirtySocks: I wasn't gonna go that far, but I might let the lazy bastard who slacks off all the time at the office have a nice big heaping piece first before I had mine. You know... just as a precaution.

djdare

Poison!

max.goedjen

I needs some cake@!

Carmen is VERY sick

Better than dumping a huge IE logo on their lawn ... as the IE team did to Netscape when IE4 shipped.

Of course the looping "F*CK YOU" fax that Marc Andreesen sent back to the IE team seems to have made the boys in Redmond a little scared ... Cake? What kind of war is this anyway?!

xmlguy

@nimblesquirrel:
also is the companion cube!

Ariel_Wollinger

It's a trap!

Kaiser-Machead's got LindsayJoy's cookies on the SuperDrive

And out from the cake jumps microscopic nano-ninjas which then leap into the Mozilla servers and infect the executibles which YOU HAVE JUST INSTALLED! Haha! The Trojan Cake! Nano Ninjas! BWAHAHA!

DirtySocks

The cake is a lie....
They don't love them. ;)

nimblesquirrel

that's awesome.
like.. srsly.

Vonn64

There's plenty of room in the pool for everyone. Jump in and have fun.

vagrant

@thepeopleselbow: AGREED!

...I think this is a great picture.

But C'mon, John! ...dont ruin it for the rest of us. We WANT to still believe the MS guys and MOZILLA guys hate each other, and vise verse.

xint

The cake... aww.. nevermind.

junkmail

A bribe, perhaps? Like, "Can we please have a share of the browser market back? Pretty please?"

CajunGuy

Riotous.

Jamezspot

The first proof I have ever seen that someone at MS might have a sense of humor.

thepeopleselbow

how cute, friendly nerd competition

oopl

Okay... maybe I'm reading too much into the proverbial tea leaves, but has anyone checked out the download page. Look at Panel 4. It's XP.

Subtle dig at Microsoft? You be the judge.

OMG!!! Ponies!!!

How much do you want to bet the cake has a booby-trap inside?

techwiz140

I think Microsoft was thinking something along the lines of this.
1. Be nice to competitors.
2. ...?
3. Profit!

mferrari

Yes, have a party. don't improve your browser. party, much more important.

/I have no sense of humor..

GiantEnemyCrab

Haven't been able to download FF3 all day because the page won't load and when it does, it says FF2; 2.0.0.14 to be exact.

allstarecho

MS has a sense of... humor?! ... I don't know anything anymore! Is the sky really blue?! Is the grass really green?! OMG... everything I thought to be true... is fake... Oh dear god, its Armageddon...

CCM333

Hope they tested it for sperm frosting. And that isn't chocolate, its peeew. And its high in calories.

NumberFiveIsAlive

The secret ingredient: constipation medicine!

VakeroRokero

@Nintenboy01: There's always next time.

techwiz140

@MichaelScrip: Yeah, no kidding. I'm just doing some simple blocking of ad sites in my hosts file, and Giz just loaded in well under 2 seconds...and that was in IE7 even.

CSX321

That is too cool.

Just for that I will drive to my local public library, wait for an available PC to become available, and use IE to browse one website.

This, as a show of good faith to the IE team for this act of coolness.

(Not gonna actually install Windows on my mac to do this) :)

larry91403

2,855,285 -firefox 3
579,137,807 -total

remember that firefox is voluntary. you dont have to download it.

they should have just had that number on the wall when m$ arrived.

glaeven

An unidentified cake is trying to access your stomach.

-> Cancel
-> Allow

JazzmanSA80

I was actually expecting Microsoft to send them Fox pelts and skinless fox remains instead.

Nintenboy01

When I saw this, I instantly thought of this T-shirt:
[shirt.woot.com]

Andrew

@Ariel_Wollinger: he was invited to the party as well but you murdered him.

mcknn

Hahaha! That's awesome! At least some of the people at Microsoft have a good sense of humor.

CarbonatedWater

@eblingmis: That comment is stuck somewhere in my Macbook air which is syncing with my iPhone that's downloading funny songs about how Microsoft sucks and Monkeyboy Ballmer is jumping around with a Zune in his hand.

Kaiser-Machead's got LindsayJoy's cookies on the SuperDrive

Where are the gratuitous Macbook Air comments?

eblingmis

The cake is a lie...wait no is a BOMB don't eat it!

Mike918

i especially love how firefox 3 breaks the iweb galleries (or they don't conform to some standard that firefox 3 is grumpy about). Either way, it should make the mac install base that uses iWeb happy.

ruggels

Don't forget garnishes, such as:

Fish shaped crackers
Fish shaped candies
Fish shaped dirt
Fish shaped solid waste
Fish shaped ethyl benzene
Pull and peel licorice
Fish shaped volatile organic compounds
Sediment shaped sediment
A 20-foot thick impermeable clay layer

Elliuotatar

I can tell you this the rivalry with Mozilla has really done wonders for the people who work on IE. When the First Browser War was won the company just seemd to abandon them. Now they have Teh Rage. We'll see how much whining goes on about standards when IE8 drops.

olafson

I took a screenshot of it once it finally loaded..

[i31.tinypic.com]

Something's amiss.

allstarecho

@allstarecho: Just downloaded it upon reading this, no issues here.

ruggels

Nice! Is it the cake with the antitrust frosting or the Zune frosting? Either way, it's a good flavor.

michaelleung

@Andrew: That's a sweet shirt indeed. Sometimes I feel like the shirts are the only worthwhile thing woot sells. (Just my two cents). *Shrugs.*

eblingmis

Where's our Mozilla cake? Now THAT'D be worth eating.

aaj111

@dingus: Like firefox wasn't already crippled to begin with? Maybe it's just me but the new one isn't working as well as I had hoped.

techwiz140

Every time I've been to MS' Redmond campus I've seen at least two people wearing some sort of Firefox shirt, so I'm not too surprised.

And yes, people at Microsoft have a sense of humor, having NERF weaponry is an unwritten requirement (for self defense).

something_unique_and_descriptive

I MAED U A BROWZUR
BUT I CRIPPALD IT

dingus

@nimblesquirrel: i just ROFL'd
@Andrew: <3 shirt.woot

Gstein

Next, Microsoft sending Yahoo! a Christmas-tree!

vinodlive

The cake was doped! everybody at mozilla are hallucinating, and there will never be a firefox 4! hahahha!! MS wins again!!

donfun

Haha I didn't get a piece of that cake, but certainly got a piece of the action. Greetings from within the amazing Firefox 3 =)

Tohe

LOL!!! I hope this is true, it is TOO FUNNY *LMAO!*

I was thinking that we should send them a pet fox or something, then animal rights activists came to mind...nevermind - Cake it is!

JoOngle

If I correctly understand a popular quotation from There Will Be Blood (I have not yet seen the movie), would it not be a more meaningful gesture for Microsoft to acknowledge the success of Firefox by presenting a milkshake?

Brian Sexton

They want him to eat all the cake so that he gets diabetes!

altus

Haha, that cake is sick.

rndmx

@Vonn64: I think this is what actually transpired:

MS: "Cake or death?"
FF: "Eh, cake please."

+ Watch video

bungee

The cake is a lie.
The cake is a lie.
The cake is a lie.
The cake is a lie.

DisposableInterloper

LMAO @ Microsoft having a sense of humour. Face it , they not only wrote VISTA they actually expect us to pay for it.....how humourous is that .

fastmike

When IE finishes their next version, Mozilla lights a paper bag of shit on their door step, rings the door bell, and runs away.

wolfenstein-3d is sticking to his 4GB iphone1.0

Awwwh, that's so niiiice >.>

I would love an IE cake.

MastaFalse

Doesn't the IE team realize that they will shit that out? The Firefox team not only gets to devour delicious cake, but they get to turn IE into shit... not that it needed any help.

hagrun

@Ariel_Wollinger: I miss companion cube..... why did I have to burn him....? **tears**

etaripamai

In the last couple of years, Microsoft is much better natured about competition than the Apple or Linux organizations.

The PC-Mac commercials are borderline bad sportsmanship, and sometimes are just wrong. (like the ones that infer Windows cannot be used with fun entertainment (!?) software and isn't compatible with digital cameras (!!?)

Linux pundits will basically call everything that comes out of Redmond a broken Commie POS and have insisted that the 'Linux Year Of The Desktop' has arrived every year since 1998.

brundlefly76

@Carmen is VERY sick: "Safari, IMHO, is way better then Firefox."

AGREED!!!!

Chromeo

@hagrun: ROFL!

Sean Robertson

Of COURSE Microsoft is going to congratulate them and be all nice to them. Pretty much every browser innovation that came to IE in the past couple of years are straight from Firefox.

sgodun

Looks like the delivery boy has been eating too much cake himself.

Sean Robertson

@tex1ntux: Safari gets no cake, only poison.

Doug81

The guys in the trenches at Microsoft aren't any different than the guys in the trenches anywhere else. They go to work to get paid, and some probably even enjoy it.

In the end, the developers are just nerds like the rest of us. Its the guys at the top that define the companies direction.

kcdale99

@fastmike: Dang man that was funny and original and I have never heard anything like it. You should probably take that on the road.

The way I see it, IE's market share (when you get out of the internet echo chamber) is still pretty substantial. However it's not really MS's huge money maker and I'm willing to bet that they've basically ceded the eventuality of losing the market and have swapped out all the IE personnel with fun loving hippies who probably pronounce it "Eye-EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!" and giggle to themselves every time.

Thus, a cake being sent to the crew.

Well that or Microsoft ISN'T comprised of dick heads like most monday morning entrepreneur's would believe.

BonoMan

This was a triumph!

trek1394

Yay! I like that the IE team have a sense of humor. The tech world is (gasp) REALLY NOT THAT SERIOUS. I wish the Twitter guys had a sense of humor. Then maybe they wouldn't go blaming their power users for the app's downtime.

wild homes 5: no disassemble!

sends by the IE Team...they are a bunch of developer, i dont think they care about the market share, what I think they care about is at least they have competition that keep them both needed on their jobs...

BratPAQ

Trojan Cake!

MarlboroTestMonkey7

made my freakin day!!!

keyser

@bungee:
<MS> You, Opera Software, cake or death?!
<OS> Uh, death, please. No, cake! Cake, cake, sorry...
<MS> You said death first, ah-ahh, death first!
<OS> Well, I meant cake...
<MS> Awh, all right... you're lucky I'm a monopolistic entity with little to fear.

@Elliuotatar: I was about to post a "HEY GUYS LET'S RUN THIS SHIT INTO THE GROUND"-style comment, but yours is an obscure enough reference to still be cool.

macserv

That cake is a spy!

In related news:

Spy's sappin' mah market share!

Sidecutter

In Soviet Union, cake sends you to competitor.

Sorry, that just popped into my head. On an almost but not quite totally unrelated note, back in the 80s I had a math professor originally from the Soviet bloc who used to say everything was a "peez ov kake." I enjoyed his classes. He always told us what the math theories were called in Soviet schools. It was always some Russian who came up with each one.

CSX321

You know the fat guy in the office will inevitably get hungry toward the end of the day, eat a piece and end up on the toilet all night haha.

crayonwaxy

@nimblesquirrel: Mmmmm, portal cake.

@bungee: AHAHAHA I love Eddie Izzard!

I like Firefox on my PC but I think I like Safari better on my Mac. I tried to put Firefox on mah Mac but it was unhappy, so I removed it. Oh Microsoft, you are a silly bitch.

Karinabob

@thepeopleselbow: How is this the first time? They did it before, as mentioned in the story.

keene

FYI: Nobody at Microsoft really gives a rat's ass about Firefox. It's not like IE brings them any profits and 75% of people on the web have never heard of Firefox.

It's not a browser war, it's at best a heated browser debate. In which case, cake is perfectly fine.

woogychuck

A war on totally free internet browsers.

What don't we have wars over? Pencil sharpeners?

Tomahawk214

mmm. blue.

dedalus987

I wouldn't be surprised if it was laced with arsenic. Apparently the first time didn't really do the trick.

tubman7

@BonoMan, @woogychuck: (Browser doesn't matter to MS, no money in it.)

You're very wrong. First Microsoft used proprietary ActiveX technology to force improvements to the Web experience to be Windows-only binary code. When that turned out to be a gaping miserable security hole Microsoft used MSIE's market share and lack of compatibility with later CSS and XHTML standards to freeze improvements to the Web experience (except for XMLHttpRequest for Outlook Web Access, a fine genuine advance).

Even now there's still no SVG support or canvas tag in MSIE, and JScript is very incompatible with standard JavaScript. Microsoft is stalling ECMAscript 4 and HTML 5 Web standards work, while Firefox/Opera/Safari browsers are busy implementing really cool new features. Microsoft's attitude these days: you want cool graphics and more advanced application scripting? Go download proprietary mostly/only-on-Windows Silverlight or CLR/DLR/.NET whatever, which don't come from the IE group.

Meanwhile if 90% of your computing takes place in the browser and Firefox runs just the same on Linux, why pay the Microsoft tax?

skierpage

It's the first time I've seen Microsoft have a sense of humor. They were trying to say that their browser is the best, even though they know it's failing. lol

maximz2005

I h8 cake!

DJTripleRRR