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Seriously, CBC? Sat, Jan 28. 2012


Going to the CBC this morning, I found this:

I have three problems with this:

  1. The CBC is our public broadcaster, funded in large part by tax money. It should support wide access.
  2. I'm not running IE, I'm running Firefox. The ad is lying to me. If they're able to detect I'm not running the latest version of IE, they should also detect that I'm not running IE at all. My browser is not old, either -- I'm running the latest release of Firefox, which contains several features not yet supported by IE.
  3. IE does not run on my platform (Linux). The ad is a waste of time for me and a waste of money for the advertiser. The pages to which the ad links are all specific to Windows, with no consideration for those running Mac OS/X, Linux, or any other platform.

The ad text seems to imply endorsement. Does the CBC actually endorse the position that the only acceptable end-user computing platform is Windows on an x86 computer? Is increasing the monopoly of a foreign corporation a suitable goal for a taxpayer-funded public broadcaster? I trust not.

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#1 - Mike "Pomax" Kamermans said:
2012-01-28 17:40 - (Reply)

4) the current version of IE is 9.


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