Microsoft has published a comparison chart that compares Internet Explorer with Mozilla Firefox and the Google Browser Google Chrome in categories such as security, privacy, compatibility and ease of use. It is not clear when the comparison chart was published but it made the rounds on Reddit earlier today. A comparison chart created by the developer of one of the web browsers that are part of the comparison is surely not the best way to get an objective opinion and result of the capabilities of the web browsers.
What Microsoft did goes one step further as the results look beyond belief even for inexperience users or die hard Internet Explorer fans. To put it plainly: Internet Explorer 8 beats Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome in seven of the ten categories including security, privacy, reliability and ease of use.
Internet Explorer is as good as Google Chrome and Firefox in the last three categories that include performance, customizability or web standards. Each category contains a short comment as to why Internet Explorer outranks or ties the competition. The security comment for example states that “Internet Explorer 8 takes the cake with better phishing and malware protection, as well as protection from emerging threats”.
I suggest you take a look at the chart yourself to see what it’s all about. Let us know what you think about!
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Wow… This has “North Corea” written all over it…
HAhahahahaha! To funny for words. Especially when you consider that there are not mentioning the real useful applications.
Sounds like the convicts reason for being in prison. ” I’m innocent. I got a bad lawyer!”
How can people ever learn to trust Microsoft when they keep telling such bald faced lies.
This “chart” is technology comedy at its best! I’m a PC tech dealing with users who have a very modest skill level with PCs, Windows, web browsers etc. I’ve done everything in my power to covert them from any version of IE to Firefox. I’ll only comment on one point in “ease of use”. Go to any version of IE and (for example) type CNN into the address box and press ENTER. Now…do the same thing in Firefox. Only one browser is going to take you to CNN’s web site and that’s Firefox. For a user who can barely turn a PC on, that’s “ease of use” at its most basic level.
Early April’s fool joke
hahaha. it looks like they forgot to mention the browsing speed and all other useful options. that are found in firefox
What you would expect from any big company, not the least surprised.
I am surprised, to be hones, namely by the sheer naivety they show with this… Who is going to believe this chart anyway? Way to go, Microsoft…
This is, of course, pure PR. But instead of just snickering about it, how about describing the fallacies? Smart comments do nothing to claify the issues.
They told us! lolz
As browser wars were ever about honesty and accurate comparisons?.. :)
Microsoft may be most lame in its attempts but hardly original.
what are they smoking? was it a chart coming from their marketing section that did went through the examination of the QA?
And, once again, Opera is not even mentioned.
why should there? how many users can you find using opera? 2?
@operayea
~40 millions last I heard.
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Dangger 731 points732 points733 points 20 hours ago[-]
That’s like saying:
According to me, I’m the best ever.
Hey you mention…
They put free with Internet Explorer Hahahaha
How about a column for “OS Compatibility”? As in, one can still run the most recently updated versions of Firefox on pre-XP OS’s, while IE 8? I didn’t think so….
Opera has been innovative for too long and still not mentioned?
And besides, how trustworthy can be the results when run m1(r0$0f7?
@Ksenofon:
it’s exactly because it has been innovative for too long that it’s not mentioned anymore. Too bad.
hahaha,
Look the original in:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/get-the-facts/browser-comparison.aspx
Poor Microsoft and their employee, they don’t have a chance to use Firefox, Chrome, or Opera