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Friday, January 30th, 2009 10:29 am

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)

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