"Maybe for you it's just a game, but for us developers, who have to spend 20% - 30% of our front-end dev time implementing workarounds for your browsers' bugs and lack of standards support, it hurts to even try to smile at that post," said someone identified as Yann. "You really don't get it. This post makes it blatantly obvious."
"Please, just go ahead and close this blog," added Cal Jacobson. "I'm serious: there's no actual discussion here -- it's just a series of proclamations by the IE team member unlucky enough to pull the short straw this month, followed by reactions by Web developers which apparently are ignored."
Dave had a different take. "Wow, *that* was poorly calculated. For months, interested parties (including former colleagues) have begged and pleaded Microsoft for information about IE8. Now, with everyone's attention and an opportunity to impress the Web development community with substance, this blog instead opens with a substance-free post about product's upcoming name. Did I miss the joke, or was the joke on me?"
And finally, someone using the nickname "Irritated senior manager" pinned the blame on Hachamovitch. "In twelve months your policy of silence has attracted more negative perception for the product that you manage than for any other product at any time in Microsoft's history.
"However good IE8 may or may not be, for the first time in the browser's history the result of your use of 'omerta' will mean that most developers won't really care. Gaining acceptance will now be a great deal harder than it might otherwise have been, and MUCH harder than should ever have been necessary."
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