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After the Reddit Q&A sessions, is this their attempt to make up for their perceived inability to drop the patronizing PR-speak? Personally, I think the issue i
by mithaler 16y ago
After the Reddit Q&A sessions, is this their attempt to make up for their perceived inability to drop the patronizing PR-speak?
Personally, I think the issue is deeper than the way they're selling it; it's that their values are fundamentally not in line with the communities they're trying to sell IE9 to, and thus, their only recourse is PR--which technically-minded users and developers are quick to pick apart and call bullshit on. RoR, PHP, jQuery, etc. are all open-source free software projects; on the most basic level, selling IE9 to those people is going to be hard, without even mentioning the historical baggage the IE name carries. Hell, most of those people don't even use Windows, and thus literally can't directly benefit from IE; making sure their websites render properly in it can only be seen as a nuisance at best and an outright hindrance at worst.