James:
THe main reason being that it's not playing fair, and
alienating a large part of the MS Orietned community out
there. The way I see it, A company playing fair would
support that browser, only tor prove that you'd want to
use IE7 more than FireFox even though it has the same
support.
Although making living with MS technlogy, I still have
to say M$ is evil
Awww, what a shame. I guess that sites like
www.ajaxwrite.com are not the only ones who discriminate
based on the browser (try launching ajaxwrong with
IE...)
And has it occured to anyone that not writing code in
support of FireFox saves MS money? ... Granted they have
alot, but since when has any tycoon entity ever thought
they had enough cash?
James:
The major problem with restricting yourself to one
browser is that you're presenting an all-or-nothing
ultimatum to your users - either you use Sharepoint AND
IE, or you don't use Sharepoint at all. I can understand
this sort of ultimatum when it's a level to get
customers buying applications - like offering superior
functionality to Office 2007 users - but since IE is a
free application and doesn't earn MS any money, it does
nothing but alienate a certain segment of the
population. I'm not even a Firefox user - been using IE7
since beta1 and loving it - but I'm already annoyed by
this news.