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Microsoft’s marketing claim:

“Web sites and HTML5 run best when they run natively, on a browser optimized for the operating system on your device. We built IE9 from the ground up for HTML5 and for Windows to deliver the most native HTML5 experience and the best Web experience on Windows. The only native experience of the Web of HTML5 today is on Windows 7 with IE9.”

Opera’s Bruce Lawson retorts (sensibly):

“The beauty of the Web is that it’s not native to anything. It works on the newest Android phone, any desktop browser and even the ancient Nokia phone a friend of mine in India has. Even though the native devices are completely different, the thing that unifies them is the Web. And HTML5 is the new evolution of the lingua franca of the Web.”

Mozilla put up a satirical website in response.

Right now!

A sign of the times (technology > service)?

Really, Google?

Soon an answer to the “Will it be faster if you get off the highway” dilemma? A storied branch of philosophy tackled my many a great mind — of course, they didn’t have Google Maps at their disposal. Article on Consumerist.

I can’t wait for the Is-there-enough-milk-in-the-downstairs-fridge-for-at-least-one-bowl-of-corn-flakes feature.