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Mozilla Developers Invited to Redmond

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the dinosaurs-in-wa dept.

savio13 writes "Sam Ramji, Microsoft's director of its Open Source Software Lab has invited 4 Mozilla developers to spend 4 days with Microsoft's Vista Readiness ISV team. The invite can be found on mozilla.dev.planning and was posted on Saturday (Aug. 19). Schroepfer replied by indicating that Microsoft and the Moz guys are already in contact via email and will follow up on the offer there. This is interesting because Sam posted the offer in a public forum (and indicated that he'd sent a PM, but was posting in case they had an @microsoft.com email filter). Sam also made a point of stating that the Vista ISV Readiness offer is typically only for commercial ISVs."

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  1. Re:Dancing Pachyderm by Vengeance · · Score: 0, Troll

    Nah, Ballmer is all head and ass.

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  2. Other way around by Epeeist · · Score: 0, Troll

    The Mozilla guys go to Redmond, manage to get FF up and running on the "final" release candidate for Vista. IE 7 is still only 55% compliant with CSS 2 and has all sorts of other breakages at this juncture and FF looks infinitely better.

    Two weeks later Vista is released and when you start FF it immediately crashes. Suddenly invites to Redmond are in short supply...

  3. Re:Sense motive checks abound by emilv · · Score: 0, Troll

    Nice? In what way would THAT be nice? :/

  4. Re:Future news splash: by cptgrudge · · Score: 0, Troll

    Outstanding! You linked to a source! It isn't unjustified MS-bashing after all! Sweet!

    Forgive me, but I can't link to a source myself. Honestly, I just made it up to bait you, since I don't have time to do a google search every time someone makes an un-sourced claim.

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