{"id":87613947,"date":"2005-11-02T01:45:10","date_gmt":"2005-11-02T15:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/?p=87613947"},"modified":"2005-11-02T19:20:11","modified_gmt":"2005-11-03T02:20:11","slug":"nerdy-windows-live-beta-you-dont-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/?p=87613947","title":{"rendered":"Nerdy: Windows Live &#8211; Beta?  You Don&#8217;t Say&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I was bombing around this morning before setting up a laptop for a presentation, and found out about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.live.com\" target=\"_blank\">Windows Live<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I went there to check it out, and a slightly mangled site came up, with a little &#8220;Firefox not currently supported&#8230;&#8221; message.<br \/>\nFair enough, I though, so I went to the same site with IE, and got this: (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/livebetanokidding.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">click to view 151KB image<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s right: using the browser they require, on a fully patched and supported OS, I got an error message, and by browser had to close (mshtml.dll had bombed out in iexplore, for those who are following along at home).  The error&#8217;s consistent, so it&#8217;s not JUST me.  It&#8217;ll probably get blamed on my Google Toolbar, since Ballmer has decided he wants to destroy Google.<\/p>\n<p>Remember Firefox?  Looked a little funny, but worked.<\/p>\n<p>Fools.<\/p>\n<p>Well, at least they aren&#8217;t charging for it (yet).<\/p>\n<p>Coming soon: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.officelive.com\" target=\"_blank\">Office Live<\/a> (you think I&#8217;m kidding, don&#8217;t you?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I was bombing around this morning before setting up a laptop for a presentation, and found out about Windows Live. I went there to check it out, and a slightly mangled site came up, with a little &#8220;Firefox not currently supported&#8230;&#8221; message. Fair enough, I though, so I went to the same site with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87613947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87613947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87613947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87613947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87613947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87613947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87613947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}