"I work at Google on Chrome ... I was on Microsoft’s side in the Java lawsuit, the Internet Explorer lawsuit and several others."
I would expect Google to get a demand notice from Oracle to make the poster available for deposition in their suit :-)
Secondly, this bit:
"So imagine my disappointment when I start seeing the FUD from Microsoft about IE9 vs other browsers. Cherry picking benchmarks, cherry picking conformance tests and generally basically lying."
This has been a standard of tech marketing in some circles for so long, its astonishing that you are just now seeing it. From HP claiming memorex disk media would cause disk head erosion (these were flying heads) and invalidate your warranty, to Oracle lying about DB2 performance or the configurations, or storage vendors benchmarking on systems where they used thousands of disk drives so that none of them actually had to seek.
When there are only 'standards' Microsoft's browser team has to out execute other browser development teams. Market share declines suggest that this isn't a 'winning' strategy for them. When there are proprietary 'standards' for which other browser teams have incomplete information, browser dominance is assured. And as Microsoft is fond of saying, "Windows is 'open' because you get Windows based computers from any vendor."
Microsoft's goal is to make you look stupid, your goal should be to make what they think irrelevant. Complaining about their tactics just wastes time.
"I work at Google on Chrome ... I was on Microsoft’s side in the Java lawsuit, the Internet Explorer lawsuit and several others."
I would expect Google to get a demand notice from Oracle to make the poster available for deposition in their suit :-)
Secondly, this bit:
"So imagine my disappointment when I start seeing the FUD from Microsoft about IE9 vs other browsers. Cherry picking benchmarks, cherry picking conformance tests and generally basically lying."
This has been a standard of tech marketing in some circles for so long, its astonishing that you are just now seeing it. From HP claiming memorex disk media would cause disk head erosion (these were flying heads) and invalidate your warranty, to Oracle lying about DB2 performance or the configurations, or storage vendors benchmarking on systems where they used thousands of disk drives so that none of them actually had to seek.
When there are only 'standards' Microsoft's browser team has to out execute other browser development teams. Market share declines suggest that this isn't a 'winning' strategy for them. When there are proprietary 'standards' for which other browser teams have incomplete information, browser dominance is assured. And as Microsoft is fond of saying, "Windows is 'open' because you get Windows based computers from any vendor."
Microsoft's goal is to make you look stupid, your goal should be to make what they think irrelevant. Complaining about their tactics just wastes time.