Internet Explorer users are thick

[Frere]

read between the lines 

To be clear, I’d expect the average IQ of IE users to be right around the average for the population as a whole, and that the average for other browsers to be slightly higher

John Gruber @ daringfireball.net

Frere

[Mr Larrington]

Much of the intranet here in the Tower of Barad-dûr only jbexes with IE; if you try to use it with FF it wants a username and password.  Something is clearly b0rked but life is too short to complain to the droids who wrote it.

[Canardly]

What amused me about this is that the hoax in itself was/is fairly innocuous but in the boardrooms of worldwidewebby land I bet the language was blue.

[Jaded]

I'd guess that Steve Ballmer was probably frantically looking up "thick" in a dictionary.