What Microsoft Could Do To Improve Their Image

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Phil Crissman
on September 23, 2008
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It would be very easy.

They could release an update to IE which consisted of a script which removed IE and downloaded Firefox 3, accompanied with an apology for IE ever having existed.

I’m just saying. I’d respect them more if they did it, for one.

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  1. 1 studiophi
    September 23, 2008 at 9:14 am

    It's generally bad marketing to admit complete and total failure.

    That said, I was at a MS-run conference on Friday where a “Software Evangelist” took a half hour trying to show a room full of us how to debug JavaScript using FireBug.

    This happened after the proud announcement that ASP.Net will now support development using MVC, which is really a shout of “Me too!” to Rails developers.

  2. 2 philcrissman
    September 24, 2008 at 6:16 am

    Yes, an admission of failure isn't what most companies would want to put out there. I almost think, though, that the admission of failure in the case of IE would be _better_ press than simply allowing it to continue existing.

    I may be biased because IE7 is creating a lot of extra work for me yesterday and today. :-)

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