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Wow, I wonder what Microsoft did to get this sort of promotion. I never would've thought that Amazon would promote a particular browser, especially IE8.
by asnyder 16y ago
Wow, I wonder what Microsoft did to get this sort of promotion. I never would've thought that Amazon would promote a particular browser, especially IE8.
- kgermino 16y agoI'm not sure that this is a promo for IE8 so much as a promo for Amazon's IE8 toolbar. Especially if when you saw this page you were running IE8.
- asnyder 16y agoNope, I was in Chrome on Amazon.com and there was a big banner to the right on the home suggesting I download IE8 optimized for amazon.com. You can probably still see the same ad. Do you see any alternative pages with toolbars for Firefox, or Chrome?
- drx 16y agoIE users are less savvy than Firefox/Opera/etc. users, so they would "need" a plugin like this more than Firefox et al users. Also it's probably easier to get IE users to download something like this.
- bhiggins 16y agoMy suspicion was that this was one way Amazon is paying back MS as part of the patent agreement/shakedown MS and Amazon recently reached.