Robert, say it ain’t so…
Scoble, with some help from my friends, you won. Fear not, you’ve done your job, but others at your company are making me swim upstream to get what I want. I now can clearly see the value in using a Tablet PC, and my employer has given me the go ahead to spec one out. The problem is that resources, to assist my decision process regarding which tablet is the best fit, seem few and far between, and the ones that look to be a pot of informational gold are heavily guarded from Mac/Firefox users such as myself.
I hereby present to you, the Inaccessable Tablet PC Hardware catalog. Upon visiting I see…
“This site only supports Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 and above on Windows. Please visit Microsoft.com.”
It might as well say, “Give up now. You’re not wanted here.” But, I know that can’t possibly be the case, and I’m sure Microsoft would love more of Michigan State University’s dollars. Thankfully, I can look at the page at home, on my PC, but should I really have to? Wouldn’t Microsoft really want to make it as easy as possible for the greatest number of people to get excited about their products? I would think they’d cater especially to those who use a competing product. If any page should be accessable on Microsoft’s site, it should be those spaces where their new technologies are showcased.
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December 17, 2004 @ 9:48 pm
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So, I’m in the market for a TabletPC. The problem is, nobody has what I want. If I or my [...]
Chase Said,
December 9, 2004 @ 3:46 pm
I frequently run across this problem too. In a current project (the one with Matt) we’re using MS Visual Studio .NET. Many of the pages generated by VS.NET look awful in Firefox. However, for some reason IE sometimes hides errors useful in debugging problems, so I often end up opening it in Firefox anyway.