GOOG-MSFT pissing match

[unixronin]

So Microsoft's Hotmail service and Google's Chrome browser have had this compatibility problem.  Google just pushed out a minor patch to Chrome to make it fake a Safari useragent string when talking to *.mail.live.com, which turns out to be all that's necessary to fix the problem.

But what's funny is the resulting pissing match...

• [Google]  We got tired of waiting for MS to fix their web page, so we fixed the BROWSER because that was quicker.  Which is so wrong.

• [Microsoft]  Hey!  We have a lot of users on Hotmail.  It's a major web service.  It takes time to roll out a change to a service this big.

• [Google]  Uh ... dude.  We, like, have this web site, you know.  We update it all the time.  You might have heard of it...?

(paraphrased)