>Sony, not Microsoft: http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2010/04/19/sony_firmware_compensation/
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>You may remember their rootkit-based copy protections scheme: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_CD_copy_protection_scandal

It doesn't make me admire Sony but don't manufacturers have broad latitude to control the ways their products can be used? I seem to recall a nasty reaction from Microsoft when Whil Hentzen was talking about Visual FoxPro on Linux.

Our pals in Redmond may be quietly up to their old monopolistic tricks. I am running into more and more stuff that doesn't work in Firefox, only IE, even though Firefox has been gaining market share steadily. (Should I have said "because" rather than "even though"?) The most recent was LearnDevNow, which I signed up for on Charles's recommendation. Try to set it up in Firefox, no go. And as far as Microsoft products like MSDN and VS, fuggedaboutit. MS offers one solution: IE.