From Redmond With Love
The Microsoft Internet Explorer Team sent us a cake for the upcoming release of Firefox 2!
A big thanks to Redmond, Washington!
P.S.: No, it was not poisoned 
PPS: My Bandwidth bill was exploding. Thanks to everyone who helped my bandwidth bill by contributing a dollar or two. These are the friendly people who did.
October 24th, 2006 at 11:49 am
Well, what a nice gesture from the Microsoft folks.
Are you sure it wasn’t poisoned or are you all not yet suffering any pain?
October 24th, 2006 at 11:59 am
ummmm I’d check that cake for bugs first before eating
October 24th, 2006 at 12:04 pm
You won’t know that until 3 days from now
Actually, it’s rather nice of them, I’m impressed.
October 24th, 2006 at 12:09 pm
That’s sweet!
October 24th, 2006 at 12:16 pm
That was very nice of them
Did you get them anything?
Also … does the icing happen to spell anything in morse code?
October 24th, 2006 at 12:19 pm
So what did Mozilla send them? Tsk, tsk, now don’t say you didn’t give the IE team anything, they’ve done a good job in shipping the first major update in five years.
October 24th, 2006 at 12:20 pm
Is there enough to go around?
October 24th, 2006 at 12:43 pm
Lol! That’s kinda sweet. Literally.
October 24th, 2006 at 12:44 pm
BTW, did you tell them…
WE HAVEN’T SHIPPED THE #£§%¤! THING YET!!
October 24th, 2006 at 1:28 pm
I wonder if there’s a message hidden in binary in the black frosting around the edge….
October 24th, 2006 at 1:29 pm
I think you’ve now officially been dugg
Holy cow, what a mess on our server…
load average: 18.20, 8.89, 3.69
October 24th, 2006 at 1:34 pm
Whose blind toddler decorated it for them?
October 24th, 2006 at 2:02 pm
Just PR. They are trying to get some of the Firefox 2 thunder…. a gentle PR campaing.
October 24th, 2006 at 2:03 pm
I wanted to submit a bug report to the Firefox developers for Firefox 2.0 RC3, but couldn’t find the option to do so.
When I click on a picture or something it sends me to the top of the page and then when I go back down I click on the image and it takes me to the link i was trying to goto. This is VERY annoying. Please fix.
October 24th, 2006 at 2:06 pm
The people at Microsoft are nice… I have met a few and they are actually people, most of which also work on open source projects in their free time.
Not the best cake in the world (sure they could have probably afforded colour iceing and a better ie logo)… but still an awesome gesture.
October 24th, 2006 at 2:06 pm
Was it delicious?
October 24th, 2006 at 2:10 pm
RE: does the icing happen to spell anything in morse code?
No. There *could* be, starting with the single dot at the top edge, and moving clockwise, an E (.), then an S (…) then a W (.–) but the bottom edge throws it all of as (-….-) doesn’t really mean anything.
October 24th, 2006 at 2:10 pm
Fake – but a nice touch
October 24th, 2006 at 2:16 pm
now u can have your cake and eat it
October 24th, 2006 at 2:17 pm
It’s probably poison. Ever hear of the trojan horse?
Microsoft: eliminating competition the old fashion way.
October 24th, 2006 at 2:19 pm
I’d love to see someone photoshop that cake – Congratulations on shit, IE team.
Go FF!
October 24th, 2006 at 2:19 pm
Fortunately we could catch the server now. It seems to be quite responsive now. Holy moly!
October 24th, 2006 at 2:20 pm
מרדמונד ב×Â×â€Ã—‘× 
לרגל שיחרור פיירפוקס 2.0 בשעות ×â€Ã—§×¨×•×‘ות, צוות ×â€Ã—¤×™×ª×•×— של ×Âינטרנט ×Âקספלורר שלח עוג׆לחבר’׆של מוזיל×â€.
לנדווח על נפגעיׅ.
October 24th, 2006 at 2:23 pm
Is this an arrogant gesture saying that they shipped their browser before you?
October 24th, 2006 at 2:27 pm
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October 24th, 2006 at 2:29 pm
Haha.. that’s pretty cool. It would have been much funnier poisoned though.
October 24th, 2006 at 2:34 pm
[…] Microsoft sent a congratulation cake for the upcoming Firefox 2 release to Mozilla. Nice, nice!read more | digg story […]
October 24th, 2006 at 2:38 pm
Equipo de Microsoft IE7 envÃÂa torta al equipo de Firefox…
Con un hermoso mensaje el equipo del IE7 ha enviado una tortita de felicitaciones al equipo de Firefox por el lanzamiento de su versión 2. “Congratulations on shipping” dice el mensajito. Como ya les han aconsejado, mejor revisen si no hay “gusanos…
October 24th, 2006 at 2:39 pm
heh… I love how it came with THEIR logo, instead of firefox’s.
October 24th, 2006 at 2:44 pm
Please, like the IE team would seriously sign it “Love,”…..good prank
October 24th, 2006 at 2:52 pm
PS: No poison added.
October 24th, 2006 at 3:03 pm
You should send them a cake back, include the recipe, and say you’ll gladly accept suggestions for improvement.
October 24th, 2006 at 3:04 pm
I suspect the IE team is thankful for firefox, because it finally forced microsoft to get their act together and update IE, thus ensuring the team stayed employed
October 24th, 2006 at 3:06 pm
Adam: Too late we just ate it
Elbondo: No that’s not arrogant, but is it allowed to mention that this is not a race so it does not matter?
All people who cry “fake”: Nope it’s not fake. You needn’t believe it though, if you don’t want to. — I don’t care.
October 24th, 2006 at 3:07 pm
Good to see the developers at Microsoft are human!
October 24th, 2006 at 3:08 pm
Despite all the snide remarks, what a nice gesture!
October 24th, 2006 at 3:09 pm
[…] So schnell kann es gehen: Fred postet ein Foto von dem Kuchen, den die Internet-Explorer-Entwickler zum Release von Firefox 2 an die Entwickler bei Mozilla geschickt haben. Schneller als uns lieb ist, schaukelt sich der digg-Eintrag langsam aber sicher hoch und der Server kommt kaum noch mit dem Ausliefern der Webseiten nach. […]
October 24th, 2006 at 3:10 pm
[…] No, not my age. Firefox—go get it! Congrats to Chris, Mike B., Mike C., Mike S. (I think this project needs some name diversity), Mitchell, Paul, Asa, John, Brendan and everyone else. I’ll write more when I’ve had a chance to use Internet Explorer 7 for a bit longer. I’ve been using Firefox 2 for awhile, so it only seems fair to give IE a chance before discussing both. The team did, after all, send cake. […]
October 24th, 2006 at 3:13 pm
How much firefox´s team had to pay for de cake?
October 24th, 2006 at 3:17 pm
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October 24th, 2006 at 3:26 pm
It’s not morse code, at least.
Even if I force myself to decode it, it’d be something like (from the top):
E S A T
-….- (Malformed)
T I S
October 24th, 2006 at 3:30 pm
That’s true, no morse code. I was trying to decypher it too but there is no code.
Looks like this is just an ordinary cake
October 24th, 2006 at 3:34 pm
Heh, I’ve just noticed someone already tried decoding that code before me
Since I left this window up for while until I pressed “Post” button…
October 24th, 2006 at 3:41 pm
[…] Allow me to join the celebration in congratulating the Mozilla team on another milestone release of their fantastic product. May the best browser win. […]
October 24th, 2006 at 3:46 pm
In response to the question; “What did Mozilla give them?”
Answer: Something to browse the web with!!
Congrats!
October 24th, 2006 at 3:54 pm
[…] Oh, one more thing. Apparently, Microsoft sent the Firefox team a cake for shipping Firefox 2! Read the comments – hilarious! […]
October 24th, 2006 at 4:05 pm
Looks more like a ‘funeral cake’ to me, unless the colors of the picture are unset.
Nice one, Adam, very subtle…
October 24th, 2006 at 4:08 pm
I agree with asten.
The IE developer group is probably thankful for Firefox, because without a competitor taking a bite out of IE’s dominance, MS wouldn’t be developing IE, and their group would have likely remained disbanded.
(The MS legal team might be thankful for Firefox competition which helps with browser-monopoly legal battles around the world.)
(MS sales teams and OEMs might be thankful for Firefox localizations which help sell Windows computers to locales in which MS hasn’t developed a localization.)
October 24th, 2006 at 4:09 pm
Nope the colors are pretty accurate: It’s a black and white cake.
It’s delicious
October 24th, 2006 at 4:12 pm
Adam (comment #28), that’s a great idea. They SO need to do that!
October 24th, 2006 at 4:34 pm
How many stickers did it have stuck onto it?
lol
October 24th, 2006 at 4:38 pm
Wenn ein Kuchen aus Redmond kommt…
Eigentlich haben sich die ganzen Browser-Entwickler alle ganz doll lieb, tun nach außen nur so böse zu einander, sonst kommen die User noch auf falsche Gedanken
Also, ist doch eine ganz nette Geste, wie ich finde…
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October 24th, 2006 at 4:39 pm
@42: And, more importantly, did it have a license agreement somewhere? … Maybe that’s baked into some part we haven’t had yet
October 24th, 2006 at 4:41 pm
Firefox 2.0 Released (MS sends the dev team a cake)…
Firefox2.0 is now official (get it at mozilla.com). And IE sent the development team a cake to say well done. Awwwww…isn’t that sweet. I wonder if it’s full of bugs?…
October 24th, 2006 at 4:58 pm
Heh, made me chuckle. Nice gesture.
October 24th, 2006 at 5:01 pm
If the Moz team sent a cake to the IE team, they’d ship napkins with a recipie on it and a note about how if you distribute a baked peice, you’re obligated to hand out a napkin.
October 24th, 2006 at 5:30 pm
Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Cake…
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October 24th, 2006 at 5:37 pm
[…] Mozilla has released the 2nd version of its popular web browswer, Firefox. No doubt, it has everyone talking about it and even Microsoft sent a cake congratulating the Firefox team. Firefox 2 comes with some neat upgrades including a visual refresh, built-in phising protection, enhanced search capabilities, inline spell checking, previewing and subscribing to web feeds, and resuming your browser session after a system crash. Unfortunately, the upgrade doesn’t come without a tradeoff. Extensions and themes that were once compatible with Firefox 1.5 may not be with 2.0. While I’m sure a lot of the developers of the themes and extensions are already working to make them compatible, there is always the chance that I’ll never get my iFox theme back due to the developer no longer being active. Apart from that, I see no reason why you shouldn’t upgrade. […]
October 24th, 2006 at 5:48 pm
@43: “If you eat this cake you agree to stop developing Firefox” Lol.
October 24th, 2006 at 5:51 pm
[…] What’s funny is that Microsoft’s IE Team sent Mozilla a congratulatory cake! […]
October 24th, 2006 at 6:17 pm
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October 24th, 2006 at 6:29 pm
IE team congratulates Mozilla on shipping Firefox 2 (FF2)…
Mozilla released FireFox 2.0 today and it is available for download from their website. I haven’t used…
October 24th, 2006 at 6:30 pm
[…] Firefox 2.0 is out. If you haven’t already, go download, and while your at it, check out the new design (I love how the color scheme matches the logo, and still manages to look really great). If you already have it, then check here for more things to do regarding celebrating 2.0. Even Microsoft got in on the party (raising the question browser wars? Or the rebirth of browser innovation?). […]
October 24th, 2006 at 6:35 pm
Microsoft IE team sends Firefox Team a cake!…
On 10/24/2006 (the day Firefox 2 is released) the staff at Mozilla HQ in Mountain View, CA gets a very special delivery: a cake from Microsoft’s Internet Explorer team….
October 24th, 2006 at 6:36 pm
[…] So it seems like the Microsoft IE team congratulated the team behind Firefox with a nice cake.. Filed under: Microsoft | […]
October 24th, 2006 at 6:40 pm
[…] More.. […]
October 24th, 2006 at 6:56 pm
[…] http://fredericiana.com/2006/10/24/from-redmond-with-love/ […]
October 24th, 2006 at 8:18 pm
[…] Image by Fred from the MoFo, who said, “No, it was not poisoned”. […]
October 24th, 2006 at 9:54 pm
Firefox 2…
Today, the Mozilla Foundation shipped Firefox 2. Firefox is a major competitor to Internet Explorer (the……
October 24th, 2006 at 10:08 pm
[…] (vÃÂa fredericiana) […]
October 24th, 2006 at 10:43 pm
October 24th, 2006 at 11:37 pm
IE Team é€Â給 Firefox Team 的蛋糕…
原文在æ¤ From Redmond With Love
看到 P.S.: No, it was not poisoned ä¸Âç¦Â會心的一笑~~
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October 24th, 2006 at 11:42 pm
I guess that is the best product the IE team has ever done.
October 25th, 2006 at 12:10 am
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October 25th, 2006 at 12:11 am
Desde Redmond con Amor…
El equipo de desarrolladores de Internet Explorer han enviado una tarta al equipo de Firefox como "felicitación" por el lanzamiento de la versión 2 de Firefox… y no, no estaba envenenada ;)…
October 25th, 2006 at 12:16 am
[…] This Firefox 2.0 public release was a nice little update to our beloved browser, but the release itself was not without some controversy. The people behind Firefox wanted to provide the best user experience for everyone, so they’ve asked people to take down any pre-released FTP download links that was published from several sources. Although, it is nice to see that the folks at Microsoft IE Team being a good sport when they send a big congratulating cake for shipping Firefox 2.0. […]
October 25th, 2006 at 12:31 am
[…] Microsoft, the company that so many people believe to be evil, has sent a congratulatory cake to the Mozilla Firefox team for the shipping of Firefox 2, released earlier today. Now how do you feel for calling them evil, huh!? Yeah that’s right, not very good at all. By the way, the answer to the question you’ve always wanted to know has been solved! […]
October 25th, 2006 at 12:51 am
IE 团队给 Firefox 团队送蛋糕？…
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October 25th, 2006 at 12:55 am
[…] Foto tomada por Fred (ver en Flickr)[…]
October 25th, 2006 at 1:09 am
MSIE项目å°Â组给Firefox2é€Â去蛋糕庆ç¥Â（想看看蛋糕是什么样åÂÂ么？）…
微软IE项目组给Mozilla总部é€Â去蛋糕庆ç¥ÂFirefox2.0å‘布。Mozilla组织表示感谢，并表示蛋糕没有被下毒：）"微软IE项目组给Mozilla总部é€Â去蛋糕庆ç¥ÂFirefox2.0å‘布。Mozilla组织表示感谢，并表示蛋…
October 25th, 2006 at 1:26 am
Firefox Cake…
The IE team sent the Firefox folks a cake for shipping Firefox 2, when MbUnit 2.3 ships me and the lads…
October 25th, 2006 at 1:27 am
[…] Mozilla Corporation has officially released the final version of Firefox 2.0 web browser for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux; soon after Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) was released earlier. The browser competition is heating up and the web surfer is the winner. In a surprise move, The Microsoft IE Team sent them a cake for the release of Firefox 2! […]
October 25th, 2006 at 1:30 am
Did you see? The IE Team sent the Mozilla team a cake……
…to congratulate them on the release of Firefox 2: http://fredericiana.com/2006/10/24/from-redmond-with-love/...
October 25th, 2006 at 1:31 am
[…] Zespół z zaprzyjaźnionej firmy podesÅ‚aÅ‚ do Mozilli tort z życzeniami z okazji wydania Firefoksa 2 – niechaj żyje wieczna miÅ‚ość miÄ™dzy zespoÅ‚ami! […]
October 25th, 2006 at 1:32 am
Humor und gesunder Wettbewerb…
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October 25th, 2006 at 1:41 am
Una torta dal team di IE…
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October 25th, 2006 at 2:16 am
[…] Battaglia senza esclusione di colpi tra i team di IE e Firefox? Sembra proprio di no, almeno a giudicare dalla torta recapitata agli sviluppatori del browser del panda rosso da parte di Redmond. PUBBLICITÀ // PUBBLICITÀ [Via | Bink.nu & Fredericiana] postato da Matteo Campofiorito il mercoledì 25 ottobre 2006 in: […]
October 25th, 2006 at 2:23 am
[…] Non pensate a battutacce. Fred, dipendente di Mozilla e autore della foto, ha scritto che non era avvelenata…E poi dicono che c’è concorrenza….
[…]
October 25th, 2006 at 2:33 am
Must-have Add-Ins for Internet Explorer 7…
The Internet Explorer 7 Team posted an amazing list of must-have Add-Ins for IE7 . Some I’d seen, some…
October 25th, 2006 at 2:38 am
The web’s a better place, you say? Well then, let them eat cake….
Firefox 2 was released yesterday and it turns out the Internet Explorer team sent them a cake .
As…
October 25th, 2006 at 2:59 am
Firefox 2 er ude…
Det kommer nok ikke som nogen nyhed at Firefox 2 er ude, det har selv Microsoft lagt mærke tilMen…
October 25th, 2006 at 3:00 am
A black cake? Looks like a “I’m sorry for your loss” cake
October 25th, 2006 at 3:04 am
[…] The good folks at the IE7 team have sent Mozilla’s Firefox team a cake congratulating them. Just a few days ago I was talking about how Microsoft really gets community, and is reaching out. Here’s another great example. […]
October 25th, 2006 at 4:10 am
Hmmmm, just wait to see if they send the “Service Pack I” today
October 25th, 2006 at 4:11 am
[…] …direttamente dal team di IE. Si apprende dal blog di un membro del team Firefox, che il team di IE ha inviato loro una torta (quella in foto) per il rilascio della versione 2.0 di Firefox. Queste notizie sono piacevoli, perché in fondo che sia Open Source e proprietario il prodotto, ciò che accomuna i due team è di certo la passione per quello che fanno. Autore Nemo Data 25 October 2006 Ora 12:10 pm In: Microsoft, Humor e Curiosità, Firefox […]
October 25th, 2006 at 4:17 am
Very good gesture by Microsoft
October 25th, 2006 at 4:18 am
Hilarious…
The IE 7 team sent a cake to the Mozilla team to congratulate them with the release of Firefox 2.0 ….
October 25th, 2006 at 4:33 am
So who was the lucky one to cut the IE logo out and eat it? :p
October 25th, 2006 at 4:36 am
[…] Microsoft Internet Explorer team sent a congratulations cake to Firefox team on the day they shipped their latest Firefox 2.0 browser. Cute. […]
October 25th, 2006 at 4:38 am
And as you’d expect from M$ – the design is pretty doll and 2 colored! :p
I wonder if the logo disappears, when you hold your hand over it – just the “new tab” in IE7… :p
October 25th, 2006 at 4:42 am
I think you should send a thank-you e-mail to the microsoft marketing-department.
October 25th, 2006 at 4:47 am
[…] Firefox 2.0 is here and I’m sure the Firefox team are happy with the cake they got from the IE team! […]
October 25th, 2006 at 4:57 am
The IE team sends Mozilla a cake…
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October 25th, 2006 at 4:58 am
[…] The 2006 edition. […]
October 25th, 2006 at 5:05 am
[…] Interesting. The folks at Microsoft sent the people at Mozilla a cake to congratulate them on the release of Firefox 2.0. […]
October 25th, 2006 at 5:13 am
Microsoft Send Congratulations-Cake To Firefox Team…
Saw this online today, a cake that was sent to the Firefox team from Microsoft. I thought it was quite a nice gesture, I just hope it isn’t laced with Malware and Spyware like some of their existing products =) Click the image to be taken to the …
October 25th, 2006 at 5:27 am
Heh… so did it taste good?
October 25th, 2006 at 5:56 am
Nett……
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October 25th, 2006 at 6:04 am
[…] Update: Selbst das IE-Team hat gratuliert! Mehr dazu hier! […]
October 25th, 2006 at 6:17 am
Where was the code written?
Was IE written in India with 100 programmers at $10/hr?
Was Firefox written in the US with 20 programmers at $100/hr?
October 25th, 2006 at 6:27 am
Why are they still making IE? They would have a huge success on the bakery business.
October 25th, 2006 at 6:35 am
Firefox Cake…
I got a kick out of this one. The IE team sent the Firefox team a cake for shipping v2. Thanks Andrew…
October 25th, 2006 at 6:58 am
[…] Microsoft sent a congratulatory cake to the Firefox team. […]
October 25th, 2006 at 7:04 am
[…] […]
October 25th, 2006 at 7:08 am
[…] Subsequently, the Internet Explorer team sent the Mozilla team a cake. […]
October 25th, 2006 at 7:21 am
nice of them to concede victory to the Firefox team so quickly.
Honestly, IE7 is a big joke. 5 years wait for that crap?
October 25th, 2006 at 7:25 am
[…] IEå°Â组给Firefoxé€Â了个蛋糕 蛋糕很漂亮 […]
October 25th, 2006 at 7:41 am
[…] From Redmond With Love | Print […]
October 25th, 2006 at 7:42 am
[…] Fred, un dipendente di Mozilla Corporation, fa notare che la torta stranamente non era avvelenata. […]
October 25th, 2006 at 7:52 am
[…] Even the IE team noticed. […]
October 25th, 2006 at 7:54 am
haha………..I agree with asten’s word!
They would have been free for long time before FF appear.
October 25th, 2006 at 7:55 am
Well done!
October 25th, 2006 at 8:48 am
Good move by Microsoft and well deserved considering the cool new features that Firefox 2.0 has. I have been using three of them every day. Especially the inline spellchecker for my wordpress posts:).
-Spoon42
http://www.spoon42.com
October 25th, 2006 at 8:49 am
[…] http://fredericiana.com/2006/10/24/from-redmond-with-love/ […]
October 25th, 2006 at 8:54 am
[…] Update Here is another Mozilla developer, Fredericiana, that blogs about the cake. […]
October 25th, 2006 at 9:25 am
[…] … for its release of the version 2.0 of the popular web browser. Nice move from the Redmonders towards their challengers. See http://fredericiana.com/2006/10/24/from-redmond-with-love/ for more. […]
October 25th, 2006 at 9:40 am
Browsing 2.0…
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October 25th, 2006 at 9:49 am
Nice, and what did the mozilla team send them?
They should send a CD with firefox 1.0 with the message “Start again, from here”.
October 25th, 2006 at 9:52 am
[…] Firefox fans take note that Firefox 2.0 has officially released. The server is busy but you can get it if you are persistant. It is cool that the Internet Explorer team at Microsoft even sent a cake over to the Firefox team for the release party. […]
October 25th, 2006 at 10:08 am
you’ll get better icing in color logo when Microsoft releases “Cake Service Pack 1″
October 25th, 2006 at 10:09 am
[…] No sabemos qué hicieron con la tarta, pero por lo menos dicen que no tenÃÂa veneno… […]
October 25th, 2006 at 10:17 am
The spell checker rocks, always IE will be behind of Mozilla
October 25th, 2006 at 10:26 am
Firefox 2 Disponible !…
a present to Mozilla team from Microsoft ^^ Delicious…
October 25th, 2006 at 10:50 am
MSIE sends a cake to Firefox…
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer team sent a congratulatory cake to the Firefox team on the occasion of the launch of Firefox 2. Link (Thanks, Alex!)……
October 25th, 2006 at 11:21 am
Microsoft felicita al equipo de Firefox…
Buenas, despues del lanzamiento de Firefox 2.0, parece que la gente de Microsoft Internet Explorer ha…
October 25th, 2006 at 11:22 am
[…] So, Firefox 2.0 has finally shipped, and what better gift for them than a little congratulatory cake from their biggest competitor, Microsoft’s very own Internet Explorer team. […]
October 25th, 2006 at 11:48 am
So now Firefox can literally take a bite out of IE?
October 25th, 2006 at 11:52 am
[…] Fuente: Fredericiana Archivado en: Geek, Firefox, IE | Etiquetas: Firefox, Geek, IE. […]
October 25th, 2006 at 11:53 am
[…] Fred, un dipendente di Mozilla Corporation, fa notare che la torta stranamente non era avvelenata. […]
October 25th, 2006 at 12:31 pm
[…] via Fredericiana poÅ¡li do vybrali.sme.sk […]
October 25th, 2006 at 12:44 pm
[…] Competing browser teams in love or in war? From: fredericiana […]
October 25th, 2006 at 12:46 pm
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October 25th, 2006 at 12:49 pm
Awesome. Thanks for sharing the picture. How much has traffic spiked as a result of this? -G
October 25th, 2006 at 12:52 pm
[…] Das Entwicklerteam des Firefox hat eine Torte bekommen, unglaublich aber wahr sie stammt vom Entwicklerteam des IE wie man am Blogeintrag sehen kann (Foto). Vergiftet war sie nicht, gestaunt haben die sicher auch nicht schlecht. […]
October 25th, 2006 at 12:59 pm
[…] Creo que esto se trata de una broma, pero en fin, según este sitio el equipo de desarrolladores del Internet Explorer le mandó este pastel a la gente de Mozilla por el lanzamiento del Firefox 2.0 […]
October 25th, 2006 at 1:02 pm
Glen: we moved the image to my flickr account because we were experiencing a heavy server load and applied some modifications to the web server to keep it responsive (it had a load of work to handle starting about one hour after this article was mentioned on digg.com).
Right now we have about 6GB of traffic per day resulting from this single post.
October 25th, 2006 at 1:08 pm
[…] http://fredericiana.com/2006/10/24/from-redmond-with-love/ […]
October 25th, 2006 at 1:16 pm
Firefox 2.0 is amazing, the functionality is incredible, I absolutely love it
the usability is perfect and is FAST! it runs in all the OS’s I use and is really perfect, it has all the functionality I could wish plus all the extensions I want, it makes browsing the internet more fun, go Firefox team! and congratulations for this amazing release! 
October 25th, 2006 at 1:30 pm
Good on you Microsoft! You deserve a cake as well, IE7 is superb *Cough* It doesn’t have Firefox’s memory leaks *cough*
October 25th, 2006 at 1:40 pm
[…] Yup. The next version is finally here. The IE team even dared to congratulate the guys at Mozilla for this… […]
October 25th, 2006 at 1:55 pm
Microsoft przesÅ‚aÅ‚ tort Mozilli :-)…
…gratulujÄ…c wydania Firefoksa 2.
Nice. I jakie Å‚adne czekoladowe logo…
PS: Ponoć tort nie był zatruty, ale to się jeszcze okaże
From Redmond with Love…
October 25th, 2006 at 2:23 pm
[…] Update: Even the Internet Explorer Team was happy about the release. 1 Response to “Bon Echo” Response Feed Trackback Address […]
October 25th, 2006 at 2:24 pm
[…] The IE7 team shares the love with the Firefox team. […]
October 25th, 2006 at 2:26 pm
Celebrating Firefox 2.0…
It’s rather charming to think that the Internet Explorer development team at Microsoft sent a congratulatory cake to the Firefox development team to mark the release of Firefox 2.0…….
October 25th, 2006 at 2:40 pm
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October 25th, 2006 at 3:02 pm
[…] From Redmond With Love The Microsoft Internet Explorer Team sends Mozilla a cake in congratulations for the release of Firefox 2.0 today. (tags: firefox ie) […]
October 25th, 2006 at 3:03 pm
That was a really nice gesture by IE team! I hope you FF people will make a return gift that acknowledges this appropriately (of course, some unobtrusive firefoxy/opensourcy touch might be nice
October 25th, 2006 at 3:19 pm
[…] IE7 out. Firefox 2.0 unleashed. That isn’t all folks. Earlier we posted this “Mozilla accepts Microsoft’s offer of help“. A very nice gesture happened from the Empire of Microsoft. IE team sent Firefox people a cake for the release of Firefox 2.0 . […]
October 25th, 2006 at 3:32 pm
The IE guys must’ve outsourced to Costco or something, they can’t have had the time, what with all the bugs they have to fix.
October 25th, 2006 at 3:36 pm
[…] By this time all of you already know that IE7 and Firefox 2.0 were already released, but what I liked, or better said what I saw like a nice thing is that the Microsoft Internet Explorer team sent a cake to the guys at Mozilla for the release of Firefox 2.0 […]
October 25th, 2006 at 3:36 pm
[…] Firefox 2.0 was released this week featuring a refined user experience and a great many new developer features. The fine (and envious) folks from Redmond, WA (aka – Microsoft) sent the Mozilla developers a cake, congratulating them on the release of 2.0. […]
October 25th, 2006 at 4:00 pm
But … did it TASTE any good?
October 25th, 2006 at 4:02 pm
Hopefully nobody will go overboard on this. It is simply a group of developers congratulating other developers.
After all, most developers are relegated to tiny cubicles with a food slot and bucket (for unmentionables).
Well done.
October 25th, 2006 at 4:39 pm
[…] Bill T. on a Fredericiana posting gave a humble response to the photo that actually makes a lot of sense: […]
October 25th, 2006 at 4:49 pm
You guys should send them a cake back — with the recipe!
October 25th, 2006 at 5:05 pm
From Google to Microsoft, and from Microsoft to Google…
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October 25th, 2006 at 5:18 pm
Couldn’t have tasted good.
October 25th, 2006 at 5:29 pm
[…] I don’t want to forget about this, so I’m actually posting from work. It’s just nice to see that there are no hard feelings between different development teams. I call this ‘professionalism’. […]
October 25th, 2006 at 6:22 pm
But… why?