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Ok they are comparing beta/preview version of IE with stable version or not even recent versions of browsers?

The current beta/dev version of Chrome is 5 not 4.1. The current FF nightly build is 3.7a5 not 3.6.3, the current stable Opera version is 10.6.3 not 10.5.2.

As usual, more FUD from microsoft.




Where is the FUD?

These are tests submitted by MS. The declare what they are testing, and what they are comparing against? FUD would be MS saying that IE supports standards better than the latest competitors browsers. They aren't saying that. They aren't even implying that. The only way this is FUD is if you selectively choose to be daft about the entire thing and ignore vast portions of the page. It would be if I was selective about your post, and assumed you said:

"I ... Am ... FUD"

Edit: I should note, they are even pretty clear about what they are comparing: "The first table is a summary of the test results with the May 2010 IE Platform Preview and each of the major shipping browsers running on Windows."

They don't pretend to test the latest beta/alpha/nightly release of the browsers. Merely the latest shipping.


Actually, it's called vaporware. It's related to FUD, but it's not the same.

What they are saying is "don't port your corporate applications that require IE to other browsers and don't standardize on them. Our next version will be much better than theirs and it's just around the corner. We promise".

A couple days ago they announced their Courier tablet was canned. If you remember when it was leaked, the timing of the leak was to coincide with an Apple announcement everybody suspected would be of a tablet computer. The message was "Ours will be much cooler. You don't have to consider buying hardware that doesn't reinforce your dependency on Windows".




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