More Browser Support Annoyances

I generally don’t use Windows on either of my desktops or my laptop. I normally use Mac OSX or Ubuntu Linux, so this kind of message is not only annoying, but kind of pointless:

I wouldn’t mind so much, but as far as I can see you don’t need anything special once you’re actually logged in to the Microsoft Partner portal (I had to remote desktop into a Windows machine to find out!)

By Michele Neylon

Michele is founder and CEO of Irish hosting provider and domain name registrar Blacknight.

7 comments

  1. While I would agree with you in general, this is a Microsoft Partner site. It’s merely indicating that you may experience problems but allows you to continue – I would therefore think MS are justified (if somewhat mean) to host their site in a content format that best utilizes their browser as long as it’s not hobbling other browsers on purpose (any evidence of this?).
    BTW, IE8 scores 100/100 on the Acid3 test whereas FF 3.0.6 scores 71/100. Who is not standards compliant?

  2. Stephen
    It doesn’t allow you to continue. That’s the problem.
    If you click the “continue” link you end up back at the page I took a screenshot of
    Michele

  3. Stop whining, it’s just Microsoft’s way of keeping you away from places you shouldn’t be in 🙂

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