Microsoft extends a helping hand to Firefox

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...but why ???

...posbly bcoz it is very well behaved under Vista...

*blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=73&tag=nl.e550

^^ It is 1 of MS's stratergy .... "If u cant beat em ..... join em"

lets just hope that the firefox guys don't fall under the spell of microsoft and start producing mediocre grade software like internet explorer,or is this just one of their tricks to get firefox down and IE up?

mAV3 said:
^^ It is 1 of MS's stratergy .... "If u cant beat em ..... join em"

actually its "If u cant beat em ..... BUY em" :))

Actuall its Embrace, Extend Extinguish

Firts I shake hands with you Then i extend you you some support In the end i eat you up

Typical M$

When MS had copyright problems concerning GUI with apple, they jointly signed a pact...only for Apple to repent later
Is this same with Firefox too???

pathiks said:
actually its "If u cant beat em ..... BUY em"

well said, ms may be looking forward to buying ff someday.....

There has been some speculation of that. For example, over the past year, Microsoft has spent near $650 Million in buying up a large number of small companies -- around 23, I think. It has a lot of money, and it's using it. Now if only they'd use it on making less buggy software...