Random Liegh wrote:

> Albert wrote:
> 
>> ahmetaa wrote:
>>
>>> According to news.com,
>>> posibly you've already heard, msn does not work with no browser but 
>>> IE now.
>>> http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7655334.html?tag=mn_hd
>>>
>> Look at http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97222.  They're 
>> blocking Netscape 6.1 because of unspecified security flaws.  They 
>> will let 6.1 see the MSN page however. And according to the CNET 
>> article, "
>>
>> "All of our development work for the new MSN.com is...W3C standard," 
>> said Bob Visse, the director of MSN marketing, referring to the World 
>> Wide Web Consortium, which is developing industry standards for Web 
>> technologies. "For browsers that we know don't support those standards 
>> or that we can't insure will get a great experience for the customer, 
>> we do serve up a page that suggests that they upgrade to an IE browser 
>> that does support the" standards
>>
>> So, by their logic, MSIE should be banned too, eh?  Netscape 4.x would 
>> too, but Mozilla really shouldn't...
>>
>>
> 
> Actually; their logic seems to be more "we cannot control their 
> experience" and less about standards, so there you go...it's ie 4 or 
> nothing.
> 
> And I've tried loading msn under netscape for (under linux, however); 
> and it doesn't work for me, personally. Hadn't tried it on Mozilla, though.
> 

They wouldn't have spent all that money giving 'free' MSN service with 
purchase of a computer if they didn't have some motive. Guess what that 
motive is ...


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