The Microsoft Monopoly Is At It Again...

Discussion in 'General Marketing' started by DSB, Feb 15, 2007.

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    Not sure if anyone else has pointed this one out, but good old Microsoft seems to be at it again with its monopoly control agenda...

    Feedburner is of couse a popular way of promoting feeds and getting info on the amount of your feed subscribers etc., but I was astonished to see the difference between a Feedburner feed page on Firefox and on IE7.

    Have a look at this feed on both browsers to see what I mean: (It's not my feed by the way)
    http://feeds.feedburner.com/ProbloggerHelpingBloggersEarnMoney

    IE7 doesn't allow you to subscribe any other way apart from their own way!!! :mad:
     
    DSB, Feb 15, 2007 IP
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    jhmattern Illustrious Member

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    lol That definitely is crap. Is it just browser-based, or do they have a deal with feedburner or something (I'd guess not)? I can't imagine that it's in any way ok for a browser to be altering a company's site and/or services w/o their permission though, especially deliberately (definitely isn't a simple design issue). But frankly, I don't care that much. I only use IE to check designs anyway.
     
    jhmattern, Feb 15, 2007 IP