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Mozilla Sends Cake to Microsoft IE Team for IE10 Congrats

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Mozilla hand-delivered the cake to Microsoft last Friday.

Microsoft last week officially launched Windows 8, the latest iteration of its Windows operating system. Somewhat overshadowed by the launch of Microsoft's new desktop OS was the launch of Internet Explorer 10, which ships with Windows 8. However, one company that didn't let the IE10 launch go by unnoticed was Mozilla.

 

That's right, the team behind one of IE10's biggest competitors last week sent the Internet Explorer team a cake to celebrate the launch of IE10. Programmer and Mozilla employee Matt Brubeck on Friday updated his personal blog with a photo of the cake Mozilla delivered to Microsoft's Internet Explorer team.

"Back when Firefox 2 was released (six years ago this week!), the Internet Explorer team started a friendly tradition of sending Mozilla a cake as congratulations," writes Brubeck. "This continued for Firefox 3 and Firefox 4. After Firefox switched from major releases once or twice a year to incremental updates every six weeks, they sent us a cupcake for the next few updates instead."

Mr Brubeck writes that he decided to revive the tradition for the launch of IE10 with a Firefox cake from Baked Custom Cakes. The IE10 team tweeted their thanks and the cake was consumed in the space of about 30 minutes.

Isn't it lovely when everyone get's along?

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  • 55 Hide
    gilgamex , October 30, 2012 2:07 PM
    I love stuff like this, anything that can break through the politics du jour brings a smile on my face
  • 54 Hide
    borisof007 , October 30, 2012 2:12 PM
    Would have been pretty funny if Google sent Apple a Gingerbread cake.
  • 38 Hide
    house70 , October 30, 2012 2:22 PM
    "Isn't it lovely when everyone get's along?"

    It is lovely when everyone gets along.
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  • 55 Hide
    gilgamex , October 30, 2012 2:07 PM
    I love stuff like this, anything that can break through the politics du jour brings a smile on my face
  • 54 Hide
    borisof007 , October 30, 2012 2:12 PM
    Would have been pretty funny if Google sent Apple a Gingerbread cake.
  • 19 Hide
    greghome , October 30, 2012 2:18 PM
    reminds me of AMD's I Heart You Mugs
  • 38 Hide
    house70 , October 30, 2012 2:22 PM
    "Isn't it lovely when everyone get's along?"

    It is lovely when everyone gets along.
  • 25 Hide
    freggo , October 30, 2012 2:27 PM
    Once you take away the greedy money managers and let the techs have at it the world gets a bit sunnier.
    Nice gesture on both parts that shows some class !
  • 31 Hide
    Cryio , October 30, 2012 2:28 PM
    Great sportmanship. The Firefox and Internet Explorer teams are great folks.
  • 8 Hide
    bak0n , October 30, 2012 2:28 PM
    In response Microsoft was found discussing how to legally kill all those involved with Firefox. Oh wait. That was Apple but Steve Jobs is gone now. Let the Love continue!
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    Estix , October 30, 2012 2:36 PM
    Really, though, IE10 is good for Firefox (and Chrome, and Opera, and Safari), as it will mean more sites will go towards standards-compliance, and will make more HTML5 features usable to devs :) 
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    gilgamex , October 30, 2012 2:54 PM
    house70"Isn't it lovely when everyone get's along?"It is lovely when everyone gets along.


    It's all about the get is, "get is" is all the rage these days, all the kids are doin it
  • 14 Hide
    mayne92 , October 30, 2012 2:54 PM
    I have always appreciated this gesture between Mozilla and IE
  • 13 Hide
    dthx , October 30, 2012 2:57 PM
    I like that ! This is much nicer to read thant those neverending "xxxx" sued "yyy" stories we get to read most of the time.
    We can be glad there's room for several browsers. The competition forces them all to become better with every release. I remember a time when Netscape had the only browser ... it was almost as stable as our 14.4k modem connection ...
  • 11 Hide
    Anonymous , October 30, 2012 3:00 PM
    no patten infringment on the cake?
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    pedro_mann , October 30, 2012 3:16 PM
    Apple and Samsung should take the hint.

    I'de like to see a nice cake going out to Samsung, "Congrats on Nexus 10"
  • 10 Hide
    alexmx , October 30, 2012 3:21 PM
    ben_foster4520my roomate's mother-in-law makes $62 hourly on the computer. She has been without a job for five months but last month her pay check was $20294 just working on the computer for a few hours. Go to this web site and read more ✦ genericurl.coℳ ✦


    *txk, tsk!*

    Your roomate's mother-in-law might be a cam**ore

    and article related, things like this make me think that there are still people who don't care about which team are they playing for, as long as the game is fair play
  • 12 Hide
    falchard , October 30, 2012 3:24 PM
    I think the Mozilla staff justs wants a cake every 6 weeks instead of a cupcake.
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    Old_Fogie_Late_Bloomer , October 30, 2012 3:34 PM
    Now if Microsoft would only give Mozilla and the other web browser makers access to the APIs they need to make competitive browsers in Windows RT...
  • 5 Hide
    sliem , October 30, 2012 3:39 PM
    Random: The cake is a lie.
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    bigdragon , October 30, 2012 3:49 PM
    Tomorrow we'll read that the cake was laced with laxatives and the entire IE staff has called off work.
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    CocoHacker , October 30, 2012 3:54 PM
    falchardI think the Mozilla staff justs wants a cake every 6 weeks instead of a cupcake.


    Hehe. Though the IE team were onto 'em :p 
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