Anyone who spends more than a scintilla of time here knows I rip it up to Microsoft (MSFT) with boring regularity. As do hundreds of other places. Today I give Microsoft and its uber blogger Robert Scoble full honours (whatever that means)
Scoble put the one question, which. if I’m honest, was at the heart of my personal decision to switch to Mac:
If I were Bill Gates I’d issue a memo that said “any team that ships without Firefox support automatically gets 3.0s for all members.”
What Robert means – I think – is this: – stop messing around. At the time, I was just too tired of the way that MSFT got in the way of me doing really simple things. But then Robert adds:
In other words, if you want the most passionate people in society to use your stuff, you must support Firefox.
I was talking with Scott Isaacs about this today (he’s the guy who is building the framework that runs Windows Live). He totally believes in supporting Firefox.
He’s fighting for this too. I think it’s time to say it publicly.
I won’t link (or say anything nice) to any Windows Live service that doesn’t support Firefox.
And, note, that doesn’t mean I don’t think IE 7 rocks.
OK Robert. Point taken. But is uber salesman Ballmer listening? If not then you’re screwed.
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