Microsoft is spending millions upon millions to launch and promote their new SQL Server 2005 release. I’m guessing they want every developer and nerdy IT type to check it out. They want to get into the VLDB and HA corporate data centers, and claim some of those vi using, I can write x86 assembly if I want to, firefox using, developers and DBAs.
The irony?
10% of the web surfing population won’t be able to evaluate it because the SQL Server 2005 homepage doesn’t load with Firefox.
http://www.microsoft.com/sql/default.mspx
Any other Firefox users able to load the page? Or is this another example of “Drink the MSFT koolaid or be gone with you!”?
Well that’s fun… I’ve got bored with that page reloading and reloading so had a look in IE (oh, the shame of it!) It’s as if they forget people have a choice
I saw that now Teradata seems to have opted out of the Winter survey Msft is up there in the VDLB top 10
No luck here (FF 1.0.7). Looks like MSFT assumes that *every* Internet user is an IE user.
I do not need sql server when I have the Oracle and the “choice”
It is broken in Firefox 1.5 latest beta, too.
I say pop that sucker in a tab somewhere and let it carry on reloading and sucking up MS’s bandwidth to its hearts content. If lots of other Firefox users did the same, Microsoft might get the message 😉
BTW, I linked to you in today’s IT Blogwatch – http://www.computerworld.com/blogs/node/1362