According to Google's Chrome Releases blog, Chrome-users no longer need to go out of their way to make Windows Live Hotmail work.In addition to providing important security updates, Google's most recent version of Chrome--1.0.154.46--makes it easy for followers to use Windows Live Hotmail. For some reason, Windows Live Hotmail does not work properly on Chrome, unless it thinks it is some other browser, such as Apple's Safari.
Previously, Chrome-users who had wanted to be able to use Windows Live Hotmail would have to switch the user-agent manually, but now the browser will identify itself properly as "Chrome" for most normal sites but as "Safari" for URLs ending with mail.live.com.
Besides helping those who use both Chrome and Windows Live Htomail who do not know how to switch user-agents (or even what user-agents are), such moves are essential on Google's part to increase the number of Chrome-users.
If people find that a popular site such as Windows Live Hotmail does not work on Chrome, they may not bother trying the new browser. If too many people out there switch the user-agent globally on Chrome to fix problems with sites such as Windows Live Hotmail, then the true numbers of Chrome-users will not be counted by firms that provide statistics on browser usage.
Although it seems that Microsoft is working "on a proper fix", Google feels it is not in their best business interests to wait.
God, what am I saying...
Yes they should.
Well, they do.
Like, instead of searching for "Firefox 3" in the string, search for "Gecko 1.9", since that would allow any browser that uses the same engine version to work, not just Firefox (And instead of searching for Safari, search for WebKit, etc.)
Not quite. I'm still seeing "Windows Live Mail" all through the story. Windows Live Mail is NOT affected by this, Windows Live Mail doesn't even touch Chrome. Windows Live Hotmail does.
Dont you think the guy that invented the toothpick sharpener should get a news article then as well????
Dont you think the guy that invented the toothpick sharpener should get a news article then as well????
They didn't "fix" their product. It wasn't broke.
Microsoft set up the site to look WRONG if it didn't like the browser. Now Chrome lies to the site and pretends it is a different browser, just to get the OTHER company's product to work.
War "is" news.
Dont you think the guy that invented the toothpick sharpener should get a news article then as well????
They didn't "fix" their product. It wasn't broke.
Microsoft set up the site to look WRONG if it didn't like the browser. Now Chrome lies to the site and pretends it is a different browser, just to get the OTHER company's product to work.
If the site looked wrong in Chrome then it is Chrome that is broken end of story.
War "is" news.
I hope you don't really believe what you just wrote. Microsoft is not going to alienate their customers just because they are using Chrome. They are working on a fix.
But it doesn't look wrong because of Chrome. Look it's working now without any changes to Chrome.
Microsoft just doesn't follow the rules and refuses to play well with others, doesn't play fair, never did.
If I was a paying customer of their services, a lawsuit would definitely come their way.
Dont you think the guy that invented the toothpick sharpener should get a news article then as well????
They didn't "fix" their product. It wasn't broke.
Microsoft set up the site to look WRONG if it didn't like the browser. Now Chrome lies to the site and pretends it is a different browser, just to get the OTHER company's product to work.
If the site looked wrong in Chrome then it is Chrome that is broken end of story.
Microsoft has done this sort of BS before, and the browser vendor affected responded in a comical fashion.
http://people.opera.com/howcome/2003/2/msn/
http://www.opera.com/press/releases/2003/02/14/
If the "fix" is simply to "lie" and say that it's a different browser, upon which time the page renders 100% correctly, then obviously Chrome is perfectly capable of rendering the page correctly and it is not Chrome's fault at all.
It would have been easier to just say "you're an idiot," but now you also know why.
gmail IMAP is garbage
Seems many others would disagree with that statement though.
all i wanted to do was check my email, and i ended up having to install live mail, because IE wasnt working for some reason (proxy settings), while i was using chrome.
nice job
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