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.
Fred took the picture while enjoying the cake...
Photographer: Fred Wenzel
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Fred, stenzmann, tgraham, Camuss, and 94 other people added this photo to their favorites.
Flickering Piper [deleted] (80 months ago | reply)
Now you can have your cake and eat it too! :)
Chris Luckhardt (80 months ago | reply)
Haha, that's so great.
Congrats to both the IE7 and Firefox 2 development teams on great new releases.
Joey Lopez (80 months ago | reply)
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 :)
drewdean (80 months ago | reply)
Looks like Chocolate Rum cake from the Prolific Oven. A very nice choice...
Metal Hurlant (80 months ago | reply)
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.
Fred (80 months ago | reply)
As a matter of fact, it *was* chocolate rum cake. And it was delicious.
Brajeshwar (80 months ago | reply)
@ 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.
DonnaGrayson (80 months ago | reply)
Fun photo !
Pugaciov (80 months ago | reply)
Very, very cool.
Long live the Browser "Wars".
idouoanthropos (80 months ago | reply)
I think you should send a thank-you e-mail to the microsoft marketing-department.
wintercove (80 months ago | reply)
Very cool! That reminds me to upgrade my Firefox!!
tashad (80 months ago | reply)
Brilliant cake!! I just upgraded to Firefox 2 today
Vesc [deleted] (80 months ago | reply)
Opera's congratulation cake lost in delivery I think.
divikra (80 months ago | reply)
yea... i bet firefox should be sending a cake to Opera for all the features that they steal from them.
Go Opera!
bishopia (80 months ago | reply)
wtf @ grayscale cake???
PuppyKrieg (80 months ago | reply)
The border icing looks like morse code...secret message???
Fred (80 months ago | reply)
Nope, no secret message there -- people tried to decrypt it already! (Or, of course, this cake release was buggy ;))
kengeo (80 months ago | reply)
it's a rather boring cake.
paulmdotcom (80 months ago | reply)
I wonder whether the Cake Style Sheets validate...
SolomonHuang (80 months ago | reply)
IE? Piece of cake!
Jacky The Ripper (80 months ago | reply)
Nice move. ;-)
joerg b. [deleted] (80 months ago | reply)
lol nice :)
Zodokian (80 months ago | reply)
Nice ;)
mustardbees (80 months ago | reply)
Personally, I would’ve chosen a blue icing for the text and logo. Microsoft cant get anything right! :) Brilliant idea.
akurashy [deleted] (80 months ago | reply)
congratulations! and nice i wonder if it taste good
Dima V. [deleted] (80 months ago | reply)
sweet! this reveals the people behind the wars!
ARendle (80 months ago | reply)
@bishopia: Do you know how much a colour licence for Microsoft Cake®™ 2006 costs these days? ;-)
brian glanz (80 months ago | reply)
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 :)
viernullvier (80 months ago | reply)
maybe a spacecake?
Dr. Roy Schestowitz (80 months ago | reply)
Didn't they do something similar to Netscape before pulling the knife? Blue E carved at the garden?
Bionda2006 (80 months ago | reply)
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!
aamartin (80 months ago | reply)
I am sure they wanted the frosting to be blue but IE was probably limited by the local company that made the cake.
utahlindyhopper (80 months ago | reply)
I'm glad to know Microsoft does stuff like this. There are real people behind the scenes. heh.
Fred (80 months ago | reply)
@utahlindyhopper: True that :) INteresting to see that it's not all cyborgs or so ;)
Jack Brodus (80 months ago | reply)
That's awesome! Looks delicious.
60d (80 months ago | reply)
don't mind me just trying to /. this page
Fred (80 months ago | reply)
60d: It was /.ed already, this morning.
tursiops33 [deleted] (80 months ago | reply)
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!
nación (80 months ago | reply)
Even my mom uses firefox!
Fitohhh (80 months ago | reply)
Before, you had 10% of the cake, now you have it entire! Greaf gift from MS :P
• Shane Brock • [deleted] (80 months ago | reply)
So funny. I'd eat it - I'd start with the e
hawken king (80 months ago | reply)
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!
HIPSTRADAMUS (80 months ago | reply)
Awesome!
Joachim Lous (80 months ago | reply)
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.
olger_nunez (80 months ago | reply)
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!
miss604 (80 months ago | reply)
nice!
vajraheart (80 months ago | reply)
Sell it on ebay
qybing (80 months ago | reply)
black & white...colour blind design!
alimbada (80 months ago | reply)
Haha, even Microsoft bows down to the great Mozillla! :-D
Fred (80 months ago | reply)
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! :)