It's marketing bullshit. There's lots of that in the world. It's not worth paying attention unless somebody in this community still uses IE by choice.
Actually, it's worth paying attention because it's about a convicted monopoly abuser spreading disinformation about its competition in order to hurt it.
That's nasty.
But it's hardly surprising.
Nor disappointing
While it's good that we're all paying attention to this, writing articles about it is not the most direct way to solve the problem. Simply report Microsoft to the Federal Trade Commission for misleading advertising, like I did: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=663319
I think Microsoft ways to promote IE8 are very *. If we gather and send emails (millions) of protest they should be ashamed
I don't believe "shame" is an emotional response we could expect from Microsoft.