Use Vista and want to access MSDN? Use Firefox!
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| But, the biggest incompatibility issue between Vista and the normal
| world I found was hiding in a very unusual place - Microsoft's own
| developer network. If you use Internet Exploder 7 (either 32- or
| 64-bit version), MSDN will gladly inform you that you are using
| an incompatible operating system or that the web-site you are
| trying to visit is not secure.
|
| [...]
|
| Mr. Gates, Mr. Ozzie, Mr. Ballmer - next time around, stop being
| politically correct and just tell people to use Firefox; it will
| work. Customers pay thousands of dollars a year for a MSDN site
| licence, only in this instance to get a politically-correct, but
| useless Help feature.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=38519
So Vista also prevents users from accessing Microsoft Web sites (and beyond,
see below). Comptibility issues in hardware and software aside...
Related:
The cost of monoculture
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| Korea will only get beyond this problem by 1) applying Korean laws
| on open standards to the certificate authorities, 2) reassigning new
| certificates which work with open web standards to all Koreans, 3)
| reprogramming all Korean websites to support 128 bit SSL which will
| allow for a heterogeneous marketplace of operating systems and web
| browsers. This is a herculean task and thus Korea stays hostage to
| Redmond.
|
| Fascinating history. Unintended consequences and de-facto monopolies
| create costs too high to calculate and must be borne without question.
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http://www.kanai.net/weblog/archive/2007/01/26/00h53m55s#003095
The cost of monoculture
,----[ Quote ]
| Korea will only get beyond this problem by 1) applying Korean laws
| on open standards to the certificate authorities, 2) reassigning new
| certificates which work with open web standards to all Koreans, 3)
| reprogramming all Korean websites to support 128 bit SSL which will
| allow for a heterogeneous marketplace of operating systems and web
| browsers. This is a herculean task and thus Korea stays hostage to
| Redmond.
|
| Fascinating history. Unintended consequences and de-facto monopolies
| create costs too high to calculate and must be borne without question.
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http://www.kanai.net/weblog/archive/2007/01/26/00h53m55s#003095
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