Cool Cat Teacher Blog: Proof that the best of us can be taken: Microsoft Firefox Professional

 I’ll even admit to falling for a few, but when I first saw her post, I was getting ready for dog agility so I was only reading the RSS feed but bookmarked it to research later.  But at the time, I thought it was a parody site as I cannot imagine the Firefox people working with Microsoft and vice versa.  I didn’t have time to look at either the Cool Cat site for real OR the other site, but once I did look at the original site, I could tell it wasn’t a “real” site.  It’s not professional worded. 

Following are the comments with some documentation as to the non-authenticity of this site. Thank you, friends for clarifying. I’m sure I’ll get some “she’s so stupid” posts but I’ll leave this up to show how the best of us can be taken.

Source: Cool Cat Teacher Blog: Proof that the best of us can be taken: Microsoft Firefox Professional

And I’m not saying “she’s so stupid”, as I have fallen for a few. 

It’s phases like  Microsoft Firefox 2007 automatically shrinks text to abysmally small sizes, so all webpage content can fit onto a single apostrophe on your final printed page.  And phrases like:  Open multiple copies of Microsoft websites in one window with tabbed browsing.

 You are not going to see things like this in a professionally done website.  Mine own, or maybe my students, but not Microsoft.  It’s going to have better flow.

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One response to “Cool Cat Teacher Blog: Proof that the best of us can be taken: Microsoft Firefox Professional”

  1. Vicki Davis Avatar

    Actually, my mistake was in researching this site versus spending more time on this site. I have typically adhered to a model that verifies the veracity of a site more on others that attribute truth to it — in this case — over 1700 blogs have linked to this hoax. It is certainly the most legitimate hoax I’ve ever seen. But, I’ve learned and now have one more thing to draw from in my arsenal of technology literacy — the parody site.

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