Microsoft Firefox
Possibly some of the most brilliant (and thorough) corporate lampooning I’ve seen in a long time goes to the Microsoft Firefox Parody site. Come for the obvious skewering (’Opening 30 of your favorite Microsoft sites has never been easier’) and stay for the subtle (’advanced marginal manipulation’). Clicking through the site the sheer tonnage of work that went into the ruse becomes apparent.
However, given the professionalism present I still can’t bring myself to download their executable. If anybody does, post what happens here and we’ll dub thee ‘big cahones’.
September 16th, 2007 at 5:10 pm
The download links to Google’s “optimized” (with toolbar and homepage) version of Internet Exploder 7 (http://www.google.com/toolbar/ie7/), which, if you think about it, really is just Microsoft Firefox, with bugginess, large file size, loose standards compliance, and, lest I forget, tabs that somehow take forever to open even a blank page, and WGA. Funny, funny site.