Browser Showdown! Or, Why Internet Explorer 8 Is The Worst Web Browser in History

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This week, Microsoft announced the official release of their latest internet travesty: Internet Explorer 8. Honestly, I’m impressed. I would have never guessed that in 2009, Microsoft would still be attempting to improve one of the worst, most bug-riddled, ass-backwards and incomprehensible web browsers in the history of the Internet.

For the millions of dollars and man-hours they no doubt threw into this idiotic project, couldn’t they have just bought out another company and raped an already working product into the babbling, disjointed mess we’ve come to expect from Bill and his boys? It probably would have at least improved profit margins. But I suppose this is what they call “Perseverance.” I bet Bill’s got one of those inspirational posters hanging up right beside his desk.  (more…)