I read “breaking news” today in my Informationweek Daily
about Microsoft magnanimously offering the engineers of Firefox access
to their special development lab if the are “interested in making sure the
Firefox browser and Thunderbird e-mail client run under Windows Vista”.
The only thing I learned from this article is Microsoft makes a crappy OS.
First, Firefox works on Windows now so it should continue to work on Vista.
It’s not like they did what Apple did with OS X and built it from scratch. It’s
still the same old, bloated, stretching, screeching, code base as before.
Second, if a developer needs to go to a special lab to ensure a product
works then the OS is either horrendously bad, or Microsoft is hiding something
from all the non-invited developers, which of course is in violation of the
anti-trust settlement.
To top it off they made a big deal out of the fact Firefox developers are the
first open source group invited to the lab. It reminds me of the cigarette
companies running smoking is bad for you commercials yet still selling
cigarettes. “Yeah we know it’s bad, but buy it anyway because we’re honest
about how bad it is”.
I just wish they would go away (the cigarette companies too).
Cheers,
J Andrew Morrison
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