I generally don’t use Windows on either of my desktops or my laptop. I normally use Mac OSX or Ubuntu Linux, so this kind of message is not only annoying, but kind of pointless:
I wouldn’t mind so much, but as far as I can see you don’t need anything special once you’re actually logged in to the Microsoft Partner portal (I had to remote desktop into a Windows machine to find out!)
From Stephen Holmes:
While I would agree with you in general, this is a Microsoft Partner site. It’s merely indicating that you may experience problems but allows you to continue – I would therefore think MS are justified (if somewhat mean) to host their site in a content format that best utilizes their browser as long as it’s not hobbling other browsers on purpose (any evidence of this?).
BTW, IE8 scores 100/100 on the Acid3 test whereas FF 3.0.6 scores 71/100. Who is not standards compliant?
From Michele Neylon:
Stephen
It doesn’t allow you to continue. That’s the problem.
If you click the “continue” link you end up back at the page I took a screenshot of
Michele
From Stephen Holmes:
Aahhh! Trying it now.
From Stephen Holmes:
Hmm, no problems so far (openSUSE 11.1/Patched/Moonlight 1.0/Latest Mono). Got a specific URL?
From Michele Neylon:
Any time I try to login using Firefox on OSX I get stuck in a loop
From Mark:
Stop whining, it’s just Microsoft’s way of keeping you away from places you shouldn’t be in
From Robert Synnott:
Oh, you should think yourself very lucky. Why, Microsoft’s website sort of works, these days!