Comments on: Linux users switch to Microsoft: ‘Or no Hotmail!’ http://startupmeme.com/linux-users-switch-to-microsoft-or-no-hotmail/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 08:58:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Scott http://startupmeme.com/linux-users-switch-to-microsoft-or-no-hotmail/comment-page-1/#comment-12166 Scott Sun, 16 Nov 2008 15:26:32 +0000 http://startupmeme.com/linux-users-switch-to-microsoft-or-no-hotmail/#comment-12166 I can report that as of yesterday, we could not create an e-mail in Hotmail from Firefox 3.0.3 on Kubuntu 8.04; the body field and text formatting tools were disabled. Changing the user agent string to "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3" (spoofing Firefox 3.0.3 on Windows XP) solved this problem. What Microsoft fails to realize for some reason is that it is things like this that actually drive people FROM their services and products instead of to them. I can report that as of yesterday, we could not create an e-mail in Hotmail from Firefox 3.0.3 on Kubuntu 8.04; the body field and text formatting tools were disabled.

Changing the user agent string to “Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3″ (spoofing Firefox 3.0.3 on Windows XP) solved this problem.

What Microsoft fails to realize for some reason is that it is things like this that actually drive people FROM their services and products instead of to them.

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