From kde-devel  Fri Jul 28 01:51:56 2006
From: James Richard Tyrer <tyrerj () acm ! org>
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 01:51:56 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: Challenge to KDE developers
Message-Id: <44C96DBC.2030706 () acm ! org>
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Guillaume Laurent wrote:
> On Wednesday 26 July 2006 06:10, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> 
>> which appears to be designed to deliberately crash Konqueror.
> 
> Yes, it's the latest product from the multi-billion $$ anti-KDE division which 
> Microsoft just set up in Area 51.

No, we don't know for sure that they designed this web page to crash 
non-IE browsers.  However, we do know their past history of such cheap 
tricks.

The press has looked into it:

http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/hyIo0GOEDW0G4S0EgGB0EP

And this page isn't there anymore. but if you Google for:

	Microsoft.com Preview Shuns Firefox

You should find lots.

Also:

http://informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=AGRGJMSTBUD0MQSNDLQCKH0CJUNN2JVN?articleID=191100266

CMP's TechWeb said that the page was designed not to work with Firefox.

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JRT

 
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