On Friday 26 October 2001 10:10 pm, you wrote:
On Friday 26 October 2001 10:30 pm, Martin Webster wrote:
Yes, I think we are. ;-) Don't even want to go to MSN.com; it's the precedence that this may set (albeit M$ seem to be backtracking already).
Here's a thought .. today they closed off MSN.com to non MS systems. What if they do that next year with .NET to anything that isn't Microsoft, and all of a sudden you find you can't do online banking, or shopping, etc, etc unless you're running XP. Scarey huh !
There is another precedent. The British government gave a contract to M$ to set up their "e-government" (an initiative to allow the citizenry to interact with the govt via the Internet). Guess what? the only browser that would work was M$ IE. Our technically illiterate government took some weeks to understand the problem before they could be persuaded to get M$ to reverse that decision. Once is a glitch - twice is a corporate policy.