Comments on: Microsoft Meaning of “UnsupportedBrowser”?

By: Mark S of justaccountants.co.uk

Mark S of justaccountants.co.uk — Sun, 25 May 2008 09:56:33 +0000

Forgive my cynicism, but when I saw the title of the thread I expected all non-Internet Explorer browsers to be ‘unsupported’ not just ones running on certain operating systems.

Still, as others have pointed out, you’re not really missing out by not having OfficeLive.

By: Lloyd

Lloyd — Mon, 19 May 2008 17:17:38 +0000

Michael, why would Mac be supported then?

By: Michael C. Neel

Michael C. Neel — Mon, 19 May 2008 13:59:11 +0000

My guess would be it uses an ActiveX / COM control, which would lock it to windows only.

By: adam

adam — Mon, 19 May 2008 00:36:35 +0000

officelive is a joke any way you slice it. There’s not FTP access, so AFAIK, there’s no way to install anything on it. They only allowed the use of CSS after people complained. it’s more similar to googlepages than anything else I can think of. (it came free with my dell. all it’s really worth is branded live email (e.g. @archgfx.com addresses))

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 18 May 2008 23:58:05 +0000

I seriously doubt it’s a technical issue.

Whilst in a way restricting software can make good business sense on the desktop I honestly cannot see why Microsoft would not allow Firefox. As far as I am aware Microsoft earn absolutely nothing from Internet Explorer, yet with Firefox and Opera around the corner looking to get on the top of the browser perch I don’t see why Microsoft don’t just pour their resources into Firefox or just lax their online competitive edge a bit. I could go into a rant as to why Microsoft feel the need for an online presence in the first place, but the comment box simply isn’t big enough.

By: George

George — Sun, 18 May 2008 23:30:32 +0000

Hm, the site rejected both of my Ubuntu installs (Xubuntu and Ubuntu) on the other machines, and the interesting thing is, it rejected FF3 on this machine. Strange Microsoft