Windows Advantage Validation Process On Firefox

Posted by Zonk on Thursday November 17, 2005 @03:54AM from the recognizing-a-worthy-competitor dept.

GraemeDonaldson writes "According to this IE Blog entry, Microsoft seems to be serious about supporting non-IE browsers. Mention is made of a Windows Media Player plugin for Firefox. The Windows Genuine Advantage validation process now works in Firefox too. From the article: 'Basically, customers said "We want to make sure our PCs are running genuine Windows and have access to all the content on the Microsoft Download Center; the experience when we're running a Mozilla browser is not great. Do something about it." Brad's team did. I think that's a good thing for customers.'"

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Re:Coming next... by amightywind · 2005-11-17 04:22 · Score: 0, Redundant

Just now I'm noticing that macromedia is poping up an icon in my system tray! Hello?, it's a browser plugin. It should only do stuff within the browser!

Immunity from the silly tricks commercial software vendors use to infect machines is one of the great joys of GNU/Linux. Could you imagine Macromedia trying to mangle my XFCE menus?

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