I’m one of those guys that runs around thinking people should use the Firefox browser. Many people inside Y! do use it, but they are generally the early adopters. A week or two ago, posters went up around campus announcing an internal test of a new service (no, it’s not Yahoo! 360°). It looks pretty useful, so I went to check it out.
Windows and IE only. I couldn’t believe it.
So forgive me for snickering when I read Yahoo vows to open all services to Firefox users. It said Yahoo would not launch any new services without Firefox support. Cool.
Maybe the product in internal test will get modified to support other browsers, or operating systems, before it’s released. That would be great. And then maybe Launch could support non-Windows machines too…
Update: Sigh.
Similar reaction as far away as the Middle East http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=21949
And the Dell comparison is interesing.
http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=6254
BTW, I signed up for Y! 360 beta waiting list (http://360.yahoo.com/reg/beta_list.html)