Save the Developers Lost to Microsoft?
Save the Developers was a site dedicated to educating Web surfers about the tremendous failings of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browsers. The site sported a free “badge” for Web developers and webmasters to include on websites to spread the word. “The word” being that Internet Explorer versions prior to 8 ignore all standards for HTML and CSS (the markup used by Web developers to create webpages). Ultimately, users were pleaded with to upgrade to version 8 beta; at least leave version 6 behind and move on to version 7.
So, why all the past-tense in my explanation above? Well, the Save the Developers website (savethedevelopers.org) now redirects to Microsoft’s website for Internet Explorer 7 and 8 beta. At first, one might assume that Microsoft bought the domain for the website and issued the redirect themselves. However, I’m not so sure about that upon some digging.
A whois query for microsoft.com reveals that the owner of that domain is Microsoft Corporation; no surprise there. However, a whois for savethedevelopers.org (and .com) shows the owner to be Conveyor Group. There is only a month left before the domains expire, so who knows. Maybe they succumbed to the financial power of Microsoft.
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I think since they were using the IE logo that Microsoft got them on some sort of copyright infringment lawsuit or something of that nature that gave MS the right to have the URL redirected to the IE page. Sad though since they were actually doing them a favor by having people upgrade their browser to the newest version.
Ah, good point. Your theory sounds most likely. I couldn’t agree with you more about doing them a favor. Why wouldn’t MS want all of their users on the latest version? It would make everyone’s life easier.