Microsoft Family Safety Filter Blocks Google

Posted by timothy on Friday April 17, 2009 @02:37AM from the can-neither-confirm-nor-deny dept.

mike.rimov writes "I saw that part of the brand new Windows Live package is the Family Safety Filter, so I decided to give it a spin. Turned it on, set it to 'basic filtering' (their lowest level), and went to Google ... oops, it blocks Google! So I logged into the settings and added Google as an exception. Google still wouldn't come up. Just in case, I turned off the family filter: voila, Google. As we all know, 'Don't be evil' is not part of Microsoft's motto! Oh yeah — and with the filter on, Microsoft's own search engine, live.com comes up." Anomaly?

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Re:Probably intentional by sexconker · 2009-04-17 03:54 · Score: 0, Flamebait

The EU keeps fining Microsoft for the same thing.
They just make shit up and say "Ok, actually, you have to pay 70 million MORE, then you're free".
The EU is treating MS like a piggy bank, regardless of any violations they've actually committed.
Re:Well... by Groo+Wanderer · 2009-04-17 04:19 · Score: 1, Flamebait

"It probably wasn't intentional". Yup, you are almost assuredly right. It does however show how piss-poor MS testing and QA is though. Then again, if you use their products, this is not news.
-Charlie