MSFirefox 2007 “Professional Edition”

Category : internet + silly

It appears that two weeks ago on the heals of the eagerly awaited release of Firefox 2 a twisted parody was registered. Proving that it doesn’t take much to create an official looking Microsoft product site beyond having way too much free time. While it’s impossible to tell who is actually behind it all, it becomes quite clear when you dig around and read through the MSFirefox site that it’s content is a clever parody of IE7 and Microsoft in general.

So if you start hearing rumors in the coming days and weeks that Microsoft has purchased Firefox, have a good laugh at the completely misinformed reporting it before you kindly clue them in. The only question I would like to ask the sites author is: Why in the hell have people actually download IE7 and not redirect them to Firefox instead? Otherwise, it’s genuine geek humor at it’s finest. Bonus points if official news channels pick this up without realizing it’s a prank.

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Microsoft Linux?!

Category : programming + software

Is it snowing in hell? Can pigs now fly? Are monkeys going to spontaneously fire from my ass like predicted? After reading news like this, these all become pretty valid questions. It’s like one of those terrible supermarket tabloids, except instead of news about some new celebrity couple with an idiotically conceived nickname it’s geek news about Microsoft joining forces with Novel Linux.

What becomes of this only the experts directly on the sidelines can surely tell. But I, for one look forward to learn what becomes of our Redmond based overlords. Mainly to find out what parts of Linux they do actually manage to adopt. After having read a few other good articles from various sources on the topic, all this hype appears to be targeted mostly in the server area.

If this co-op does actually extend beyond the server level (and I’m being extremely optimistic here), we could possibly see Redmond pull a Cupertino and actually reinvent Windows for the better. Who really knows though, it could even turn out for the worse. But, that is if they decide to adopt the Linux kernel into Windows and actually code for and support Linux in general. But for now that seems more like a pipe-dream then a reality.

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