Microsoft and Mozilla To Collaborate for Vista

ukhackster writes "Relations between Microsoft and the open source community may be thawing. The Mozilla Foundation has just welcomed the offer of help to get Firefox working properly in Vista, and Microsoft has also insisted it will help non-IE browsers work with Windows Live. Is this the start of better collaboration, or just a sign the Microsoft has learned its lesson from the antitrust battles?"

Comments

Re:help

[jb.hl.com]

Just imagine; Vista, coded in Javascript and XUL.

Jesus Christ, the thought of that makes me cry.

Re:Open Windows

[Brunellus]

ReactOS is such a good copy, it even BSODs correctly!

Re:Why not both?

[nmos]

Anybody have anything constructive to add to this?

Maybe they're planning on inviting them all out to Washington for a little hunting with Dick Cheney?

Re:About the time of the penguins...

[x2A]

"Microsoft is doing this to avoid federal govt problems and put on a good show"

No they're not. They're doing it because they think that if they do, they'll get access to the code, idiots.

"Because Microsoft's reason for existance is the same for all corporations"

To sit in their big corporation buildings with all their money, and be all corporationy... and um... err... global warming!

Re:Why not both?

[CODiNE]

Dude there's only one toe on each foot, it's supported by pinkies and piggies.

Re:help

[spun]

Vista. Coded in Lisp. Embeded in Emacs, which is running as a Firefox extension.

Ladies and gentleman, that sound you heard was jb's head exploding.

The Iwata of Microsoft?

[MasaMuneCyrus]

If Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer are the Hiroshi Yamauchi of Microsoft, I'd love to see the Satoru Iwata of Microsoft come forward and start running the company -- someone who's all about innovation, friendliness, working with third-parties of every country, and all about perfection.

Re:Why not both?

[Anonymous Coward]

The 80s called. They want their pop psychology back.

Re:Clippy In The Browser

[kimvette]

I think it was a critique on the post because Clippy would never say that. Clippy would be more like this:

! It looks like you are searching for pr0n. Would you like to view:

  ( ) Soft core hetero porn (e.g., your SO might see what you're viewing)
  ( ) Three guys Gang banging slutty brunette
  ( ) Gay men stroking each other
  ( ) Hot lesbian porn
  ( ) Young naked children

You have selected: (*) Young naked children (you perverted fuck!); Your IP address has been reported to the FBI and the local police. As a precautionary measure, your Microsoft Money data file has also been stored by the FBI and by Microsoft. There is no hiding, so you may as well remain where you are, you will be arrested and molested shortly. Thank you for choosing Microsoft Firefox as your web browser.