Windows Live Mail dies a little

May 24, 2006 by Oliver
Filed under: Computers, Programming, Technology, Web Programming 

Windows Live is the name for the new set of technologies software and computery goodness Microsoft is developing. A lot of the components aren’t especially related, it’s just a brand name of sorts.

Part of it is Windows Live Mail, designed to ultimately replace Hotmail. As of this morning, it doesn’t work on Firefox. You are greeted with the normal Hotmail interface and a message saying due to various problems they’ve rolled back to a previous version meaning Firefox users have to use Hotmail Classic.

Well it is beta (and they’ve said it’s beta instead of releasing it and then finding these problems) so I’ll let them off.

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3 Comments on Windows Live Mail dies a little

  1. RyanC on Wed, 24th May 2006 2:19 pm

    2. < ![CDATA[Microsoft are closing in on themselves, look at the trend:

    MSN protocol redesigned and breaks several third party clients, MSN could become closed off to only Windows.

    Hotmail, a web-based mail client, which should work in *any* browser if written using standard web guidelines, closed off to only work in Internet Explorer...which is only available on Windows...]]>

  2. Oliver on Wed, 24th May 2006 2:20 pm

    3. The scary thing is both those examples were accidental… Imagine if they tried to block other uses :P

  3. RyanC on Wed, 24th May 2006 2:25 pm

    4. That’s my point, they fact that this can happen, even supposedly accidentally, means that Microsoft, not known for being the most moral company on the planet, is quite capable of purposefully doing it to prevent competitors from being able to use it at all.