It hurts. It really hurts. Consider a full-time employee taunted by some part-time kid with the words “You suck at your job. I do it better than you.” Now substitute the full-time employee with Microsoft’s IE7 while the part-time with PS3’s browser.

Sony claims that the new v2.5 firmware update to PS3 not only brings Flash player support but also efficiency in Javascript rendering. The browser now loads content 2.8 times faster which is enough to pawn IE7 but has a lot to catch up with Chrome.

Needless to say, this is a hard slap on Microsoft’s face. Now IE not only has to compete with the desktop browsers, it will also need to prove its real worth (if any) against console browsers too. Let’s just hope we can see a turnaround after the launch of IE8.

[Via Gizmodo]