[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] RE: Microsoft's deeply cynical appeal to"standards com pliance
One really has to wonder if Gates was away playing "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire" with Regis when the decision to do this was made, because this is one way to turn a billionaire into a millionaire. Dumb. No other word for it. Sorry, MS folks, because I'm not a pitchforks kinda guy, but this one really lowers the overall estimate of the Emerald City IQ. len -----Original Message----- From: Edd Dumbill [mailto:edd@u...] Readers of this list may have come across this story: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/cn/20011025/tc/msn_com_shuts_out_non-microsoft_ browsers_1.html The story has appeared on Slashdot too, but there's a particularly invidious angle to it which is worth raising in this community. Basically, non-IE browsers are not being let into MSN.com. Opera and Mozilla & derivatives are being shut out. The Microsoft representative, Bob Visse, the director of MSN marketing, handwaves saying that the reason these browsers are locked out is because MSN either don't know that they "support W3C standards" or they can't insure the customer will get a "great experience."
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