Hotmail & Linux problems?

[oldcpu]

Originally Posted by Sagemta

What about the about:config option by 6tr6tr how did that work? I tried that out & it WFM. As I stated it even got rid of the "Upgrade Your Browser" page.

I just tested it. Works great!

Have to run now to go shopping the wife. Cheers to all!

[kaddy]

Originally Posted by Sam_French

Kaddy

Can you give me a step by step please. I have looked in FF and hotmail and I can not find where I can change browsers.

Thank You

Sam

Sam... the way I explained how to set it up is done in the Amsn chat program. I get into my hotmail from amsn, You have to configure amsn the way I explained so that when you click on your emails, it automatically uses the Opera browser to open your inbox.

kaddy

[hayjeff]

Using "firefox" as the string for the "general.useragent.vendor" entry didn't work for me but leaving it blank did. It's ridiculous that this has to be done.

[hayjeff]

Sorry for the double post, but this article just made the front page of Digg.

Microsoft breaks HotMail for Linux users?

[oldcpu]

Originally Posted by hayjeff

Sorry for the double post, but this article just made the front page of Digg.

Microsoft breaks HotMail for Linux users?

It does appear that an employee at Microsoft either did this deliberately because:
a. their manager told them to spend no time checking for compatibility with Linux OS running firefox, or
b. they spent the time to check for compatibility with Linux firefox and deliberately setup the new interface on the HotMail site to make it difficult.

IMHO (this is not a forum, nor a Novell view, ... its my private view) ... this does suggest anti-competitive behaviour by a monopoly.

[soduntan]

I honestly think that users of Linux will have to stop using hotmail over time, because Microsoft is always going to make it difficult for non-Windows users to use it. First no pop3 access, then no web access, what next?

[JosipBroz]

Exactly! And IMHO the only thing we can do to strike back, is stop using HotMail at once and bring our business elsewhere, instead of bending over backwards to accomodate someone who couldn't care less about us. For me personally, migrating from Windows was as good an opportunity as any to migrate from HotMail as well.

[hayjeff]

This has happened before (I believe when they changed to live mail) and may happen again. The fact that it has happened twice is really indicative of their stance. I'm in the slow process of migrating to Gmail.

[yojimbo]

Microsoft have a long history of ensuring incompatibilies between them and any competitor, and quite frankly it's disgusting.

I've visited the head offices of Novell and Microsoft in the UK on a professional basis, Novell on many occasions in fact, and the entire vibe and feel between the two places is huge. Visiting Novell is like popping round to see some friends, MS is like a big brother experience, and not the tv show.

The fact that they must sit around in meeting rooms planning on how to actively break compatibilities is really quite pathetic, these things aren't oversight, they are by design.

Luckily where I work now is almost entirely a *nix house, with only dual boots on laptops for the sake of Outlook and Exchange access.

If it wasnt for Exchange, I dont think AD would be anywhere near as dominant as it is.

[ken_yap]

There's a web service for sucking all the emails and address book entries from your old webmail account and depositing them into your new account. The new account provider must have a partner relationship with trueswitch, the company doing the switching. This is the case for some Yahoo branded webmail services. Once you give the go signal it happens in batch mode and you are informed when the switch is complete. I don't know if gmail offers something similar, maybe they have an in-house developed switching service. But have a look for yourself anyway.

https://secure5.trueswitch.com/generic/index.jsp

The other way is to establish a POP or IMAP connection with the losing account (yeah, hotmail are losers and an IMAP connection with the gaining account. Then you can download your old mail and then upload to the new account. Quite a bit less automatic though.