Mozilla Developers to Meet with Microsoft
Tuesday, August 22, 2006
In a surprising move, Microsoft's open source lab sent an invitation to Mozilla developers to make sure that Firefox and Thunderbird run on Windows Vista. This is part of a weekly lab hosted by the Redmond-based company to help software developers increase application compatibility in Microsoft's software. Throughout each week in December, Microsoft will be holding a Windows Vista Readiness ISV Lab. Although Mozilla Firefox is Internet Explorer's biggest competition, Microsoft still feeds that it's important to nurture the developer ecosystem. While Mozilla hasn't publicly responded (So far, no Mozilla employees have posted anything about this matter), it is said that they're in contact with Microsoft.As Microsoft prepares to release Windows Vista RC1, there remains the important process of making sure that applications previously build on Windows XP, work on Vista. As BetaNews points out, customers won't upgrade to Vista if applications won't work. To combat this growing problem, Microsoft has begun to work with developers directly. I'm impressed that Microsoft is taking the time to make sure that the transition period for software developers is as painless as possible. Not only is Microsoft doing this, but they're working with one of their biggest competitors in the browser market. With over 12% of the whole browser market under their belt, Mozilla represents the formidable come-back of the open source community.
Update: M-Dollar provides some more information and points to an e-mail sent by Sam Ramjii, Director of Microsoft's Open Source Software Lab, asking Mozilla developers if they would like to meet with Microsoft.
Comments
yeah you are so right again (as always)
I've chatted with some blogger who dont do html/javascript and they like it a lot. Untill I explained about all the template hackers. lol I guess it's for the better, most of the things I wanted to make are already in there now. Small blogs like ours (less then 500 posts) are easy to hack some style and extra features into. But it's the blogs with more as 1000 posts that really have a lot of benefit from the new system. I'm not sure if any of those where able to transfer their posts. Wich defeats it's perpose a bit?
Being part of the Google park does promise a lot of good publishing tools. my bet is that they will allow template hacking as soon as we start using the publishing api's.
to be honnest I was kind of puzzled by them. They seem to think it's easy?
