Microsoft sends a congratulation cake to Mozilla

On 10/24/2006 (the day Firefox 2 was released) the staff at Mozilla HQ in Mountain View, CA got a very special delivery: a cake from Microsoft's Internet Explorer team.

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Flickering Piper [deleted] says:

Now you can have your cake and eat it too! :)
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

motionblur says:

Haha, that's so great.

Congrats to both the IE7 and Firefox 2 development teams on great new releases.
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

Joey Lopez says:

that's cool!
Wether it's tongue in cheek competition, or real sincere congratulations; it's nice to know that the programmers are the sane ones :)
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

drewdean says:

Looks like Chocolate Rum cake from the Prolific Oven. A very nice choice...
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

Metal Hurlant says:

Now could you put a little mozilla action figure sitting on top of the "e"?

That would bring back memories.

That said, a cake is much nicer than a giant logo, so maybe that's unnecessary.
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

Fred says:

As a matter of fact, it *was* chocolate rum cake. And it was delicious.
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

Brajeshwar says:

@ Mitch: That is funny.

I've seen photographs of Microsoft gifting other companies (perhaps more of competitor companies). For instance, here is the Microsoft's Birthday Card to Apple. I've also seen many other certificates of Appreciation kinda at Adobe (ersttwhile Macromedia) office.
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

DonnaGrayson says:

Fun photo !
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

Pugaciov says:

Very, very cool.

Long live the Browser "Wars".
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

idouoanthropos says:

I think you should send a thank-you e-mail to the microsoft marketing-department.
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

wintercove says:

Very cool! That reminds me to upgrade my Firefox!!
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

tashad says:

Brilliant cake!! I just upgraded to Firefox 2 today
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

Vesc [deleted] says:

Opera's congratulation cake lost in delivery I think.
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

divikra says:

yea... i bet firefox should be sending a cake to Opera for all the features that they steal from them.
Go Opera!
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

bishopia says:

wtf @ grayscale cake???
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

PuppyKrieg says:

The border icing looks like morse code...secret message???
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

Fred says:

Nope, no secret message there -- people tried to decrypt it already! (Or, of course, this cake release was buggy ;))
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

kengeo says:

it's a rather boring cake.
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

paulmdotcom says:

I wonder whether the Cake Style Sheets validate...
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

kaichan says:

IE? Piece of cake!
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

Jacky The Ripper says:

Nice move. ;-)
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

joerg.battermann says:

lol nice :)
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

Zodokian says:

Nice ;)
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

PWnet says:

Personally, I would’ve chosen a blue icing for the text and logo. Microsoft cant get anything right! :) Brilliant idea.
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

akurashy [deleted] says:

congratulations! and nice i wonder if it taste good
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

Dima V. says:

sweet! this reveals the people behind the wars!
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

ARendle says:

@bishopia: Do you know how much a colour licence for Microsoft Cake®™ 2006 costs these days? ;-)
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

brian glanz says:

if they had cakes at funerals, this’d be it ... is that a subtle message in the black frosting and flowered border?

or ... a self-effacing shade of marie antoinette's “then let them eat cake” presuming mozillers have no bread :)
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

viernullvier says:

maybe a spacecake?
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

roy_schestowitz says:

Didn't they do something similar to Netscape before pulling the knife? Blue E carved at the garden?
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

Bionda2006 says:

Does anyone else think that Microsoft could have a) afforded a better-designed cake and b) put the Firefox logo on there instead of IE? Quite the slap in the face if you ask me!
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

aamartin says:

I am sure they wanted the frosting to be blue but IE was probably limited by the local company that made the cake.
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

utahlindyhopper says:

I'm glad to know Microsoft does stuff like this. There are real people behind the scenes. heh.
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

Fred says:

@utahlindyhopper: True that :) INteresting to see that it's not all cyborgs or so ;)
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

Jack Brodus says:

That's awesome! Looks delicious.
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

60d says:

don't mind me just trying to /. this page
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

Fred says:

60d: It was /.ed already, this morning.
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

tursiops33 says:

This is really awsome!
Maybe it's not poisonned, but it makes the IE team have a good advertising as now this pic is soooooo popular....

I love Firefox!

Cheers to the team! Keep up the good work!
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

nación says:

Even my mom uses firefox!
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

Fitohhh says:

Before, you had 10% of the cake, now you have it entire! Greaf gift from MS :P
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

Shane Brock says:

So funny. I'd eat it - I'd start with the e
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

hawken.dadako says:

wow! there are actually people working in an IE team? I thought it was just a mad professor angry at the world, inventing strange and new ways to interpret web standards!
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

jonboy_ says:

Awesome!
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

Joachim Lous says:

As someone on slashdot said: you should send one back on ie7 deploy day, along with the recipe :-) Including of course the terms that all receivers of cakes baked using the recipe must also receive the recipe.
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

olger_nunez says:

It's a tricky cake... the cake license said that you can USE the cake but CANNOT MODIFY it... so if you cut a piece of cake (and look at the internals of the cake) and even worst, if you chew it, you are modifiying the cake and then subject to a lawsuit from Microsoft.

Go Firefox!
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

miss604 says:

nice!
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

vajraheart says:

Sell it on ebay
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

QIJr says:

black & white...colour blind design!
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

alimbada says:

Haha, even Microsoft bows down to the great Mozillla! :-D
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

Fred says:

vajraheart: Selling it on Ebay would have been funny -- and I guess there is probably even some strange person out there who would pay a lot of money for it.

Too late though: It's all digested! :)
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

Snak3Hunt3r says:

fucking microsoft!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

mtlin says:

BRAVO !!! Congratulation !!!
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

m.sobota says:

dugg
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

goodoldroger [deleted] says:

Are you serious?
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

cd.harrison says:

Did it have any bugs in it?
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

Fred says:

Heh, not kidding.
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

gymnart says:

Wow, that's awesome, congrats!
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

nachoo_kimmig says:

That is a class act.

It shows that all these FF vs IE flame wars are just plain BS.
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

cherryyogurt.tw says:

Even the cake has a better interface than IE.
Posted 32 months ago. ( permalink )

Dani Vlayar - Version 3 - viajando says:

Cool
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

angrykeyboarder says:

Cool.

I just tried to add this as a favorite and found there was no option to do so.....
Posted 30 months ago. ( permalink )

uebersetzung says:

I like the picture
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

hawken.dadako says:

angrykeyboarder:

flickr.com/photos/jollyjake/278562314/favorit es/

(top left)
Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )

Cleocatra says:

Haha! Fantastic!
Posted 27 months ago. ( permalink )

Jean Pierre says:

Found a nice UserFriendly comic strip on a similar topic...
Posted 25 months ago. ( permalink )

ixfd64 says:

cherryyogurt.tw says:

Even the cake has a better interface than IE.

LMAO!
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

Jean Pierre says:

The IE team sent another cake for the Firefox 3 release:
fredericiana.com/2008/06/17/from-redmond-with -love-part-2/

What a kind gesture!
Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink )

Ankit_Patel says:

lolz
Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink )

Manu gomi says:

So cute
Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink )

jeepsnjugs says:

Definately poisoned. lol
Posted 12 months ago. ( permalink )

Astrobratt says:

The cake is a lie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!
Posted 11 months ago. ( permalink )

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