Microsoft Offers To Help Mozilla Firefox Team
Sarah Perez on August 25th, 2006
Microsoft offered to help Mozilla in porting Firefox to Windows Vista, and Mozilla accepted the offer. Apparently, the director of Microsoft’s open source lab (they have a what?) posted a letter to a Google Group as well as having emailed Mozilla with the offer to provide one-on-one assistance. Mozilla gladly accepted the offer. Wow! That was really nice of Microsoft. What is going on?
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There is/was a note on Opera - the “Community” bit somwwhere I think, which says that the Opera people have also been over to see the Microsoft lot, but also says that some things we will not be told now, but will learn about in due course.
Firefox needs to work on Vista. Can you imagine the backlash if they created an OS on which Firefox wouldn’t work? There are way too many users of Firefox for them not to help make it work. Just like any other software vendor.