Facts are meant to be true aren’t they? Microsoft, or should that be Windows since they are marketing it as “Windows Internet Explorer 8″, seem to have put their own spin on the truth by providing a list of 10 reasons that IE8 is sooo much better than Firefox and Chrome. Yes, just Firefox and Chrome, not Opera and not Safari. I don’t really care for Opera (have never used it), but the absence of Safari is just a little too obvious. Clearly they are aware that Safari probably beats IE8 in these 10 claims of awesomeness (and about 1000 others) and didn’t want to challenge Apple. Either that or they still believe that Safari is a Mac only browser, don’t laugh, I wouldn’t be surprised at all. Is ignorance or denial the first sign that you have a problem?
Let’s take a look at the wonderful claims being made by the peeps at IE8, text referenced from screen shots taken by Chris Messina (factoryjoe ← my favourite flickr stream) on the 19th and 20th of June 2009, (here: 19th and here: 20th).