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Not really no. Most of the criticisms that have been levelled against IE are technical in nature and very real (dragging their feet on web standards, breaking their own compatibility guidelines from version to version, etc).

Any piece of PR that has to resort to portraying their opponents as having the IQ of the average YouTube commenter, has automatically lost any credibility. Then to fall back on badly judged kitten memes was just cringe-worthy.

Nobody is disputing that IE has come along way. The issue isn't whether the latest version of the browser is capable, but rather whether we'd want to get back into bed with Microsoft given their past history. And thankfully there is so much choice in the market now, that people can choose not to use browsers for even the seemingly trivial reasons; such as historical prejudice.

Thus as long as there is competition in the market, I'm going to support the platforms that have a history of promoting a free and open web.




Still hilarious, I see where you are coming from but it's just not about that -- this is a high value production of a recurring discussion in every single online forum, it's like seeing a book become a movie and the writers/directors managed to bring life to things exactly as you imagined them. I myself don't care that the ad is about IE, I suffered it all -- from xml data islands to lack of text shadows even today, so much that I can't bother to see that as PR just like my eyes learnt to skip banner ads after a few years. I was more amazed by the portrait than the product in question.




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