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Microsoft and Mozilla To Collaborate for Vista

Posted by Zonk on from the two-great-tastes dept.

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?"

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  1. Re:help by larry+bagina · · Score: 0, Troll

    Firefox 1.5.0.6 crashes on Windows XP. It crashes on Linux. It crashes everywhere.

    (Yes, it crashed when I tried to reply to your comment...)

    If you have a few spare days, compile Firefox with debug warnings enabled. Then run it from the commandline... then count the fatal errors that pile up before a window even shows up on screen. From what I understand, Vista is less tolerant of bad programming, buffer overflows, etc. Fixinf FF to work with Vista probably means fixing those problems they've been ignoring.

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    Do you even lift?

    These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.