Is there a way for me to get line breaks into my comments here?
Testing, testing. Line-breaks stripped?
Sorry, line breaks are broken, and I haven't yet had the time to fix them. I'll do so soon, though.
Microsoft have a long tradition of using dirty tricks and coercion against competitors and customers respectively. When they acquire Yahoo (which looks increasingly likely), it's unlikely that Ballmer will allow del.icio.us and Flickr to keep playing nice with rival web sites (through their APIs), or indeed for non-MS customers to keep using these services. Sooner or later, the Berlin Wall will go up and those on the eastern side of it will be fux0red.
This is misleading. I was going to comment saying I had no problem the other day when testing a hotmail account for a new signup system at work. As the post makes clear, it's only if the browser declares itself itself to be Firefox 2 for Linux, it seems, that there's a problem (i.e. it looks like if you configure it to say it's Firefox (2) for Windows it's fine too) - and even then, people have said it's not a problem. I'm not booted into Ubuntu right now so I can't test it myself, but it certainly works in Firefox 2 for Windows.
Microsoft can be scummy, it's true, but it's not really a good idea to just believe all the nonsense you read... :P