Microsoft closes another deal, is redhat next?

[Les]

On Mon, 2007-06-25 at 15:13 -0500, Steven P. Ulrick wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Jun 2007 12:05:14 +0100
> Andy Green <andy at warmcat.com> wrote:
> 
> > Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
> > > Tim wrote:
> 
> > > Give me one example of how they can make my life difficult.
> > > 
> > > Have fun ;-)
> > 
> > My wife had three experiences the last week or so.
> 
> > 2) Attempted to attach a PDF while sending from her hotmail account.
> > New special feature on Hotmail: you have to have specifically IE to
> > attach anything.  Obviously there is zero technical reason for that.
> 
> Hello, Everyone
> I just tried to attach and send three jpeg's while logged into my
> Hotmail account.  The jpeg's weighed in at 2.41 MB.  Using the only two
> graphical browsers that I have installed on our Fedora Core 6 system,
> it worked perfectly.
> 
> That said, even though the above worked for me (but not for your wife,)
> when my wife tries to go to the following website
> (http://www.marykayintouch.com) using Firefox, she is redirected to the
> following page:
> http://applications.marykayintouch.com/Login/main/RequireIE.aspx
> 
> Here is the text that you would see if you browsed to the above link
> using Firefox (in my case, 2.0.0.4 Bon Echo compiled from source):
> 
> Intouch has detected that your Mozilla browser must be upgraded.
> Browser Name: Mozilla
> Major Version: 1
> Minor Version: 0.8
> Platform: UNIX
> 
> The InTouch Community requires a 4.0 compliant browser like IE 5.0
> 
> Click   to download the latest version of Internet Explorer 
> 
> The thing that is really embarrassing about the above error message, and
> the resultant inability to access this site with Firefox (on Linux,
> anyway...) is that if I go to the same site using Konqueror 3.5.7, it
> works perfectly.  In my case Konqueror is set to identify
> itself as:
> "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.5; Linux) KHTML/3.5.7
> (like Gecko)"
> 
> I would be interested in seeing how/why this site seems to think that
> that is superior to the latest Firefox....
> 
> Apparently this is how Bon Echo identifies itself:
> Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070621 BonEcho/2.0.0.4
> 
> 
> Here is how the Firefox that ships with FC6 identifies itself:
> Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.12) Gecko/20070530 Fedora/1.5.0.12-1.fc6 Firefox/1.5.0.12
> 
> I've even had one site (can't remember what it is right now) that the
> only browser I could use under Linux to access that site was
> Konqueror.  The REALLY cool part about that site was that I had to set
> Konqueror to NOT IDENTIFY ITSELF!  So, if the site detected that
> Konqueror identified itself as what it really was, or if I set it to
> identify itself as some version of Internet Explorer, it would not
> work.  BUT, if I set Konqueror to not identify itself at all, the site
> worked perfectly...  I will leave it to all of you experts to interpret
> that one...
> 
> Steven P. Ulrick
> 
> -- 
>  14:50:27 up 6 days, 22:25,  2 users,  load average: 0.57, 0.63, 0.48
> 
For any commercial site, contact the system admin and copy the CEO.
Tell them that you use Linux, and that you do not have and do not want
windows. If they insist on Windows, you believe that that indicates
their true relationship to customer needs and wants, and will take your
business else where, and also copy the CEO with the email you posted to
the fedora list.  

	We may be small, but in the world of retail sales, especially with
small margins, losing a few percent of customers is sometimes all it
takes to move a company to successful to an historical after thought.  

Regards,
Les H