From the MSN Shopping Insider Blog:

Today we launch the brand new Windows Live Shopping site!
What is it? It is the beta launch of Microsoft’s Web 2.0 shopping experience, featuring one of the world’s largest product catalogs, user-created content and an easier-to-use interface built on 100% AJAX technology. It uses a unified shopping engine to search or browse almost 40 million products from 7,000 stores ranging from many of the country’s leading retailers to eBay. Results are displayed in an order that is not affected by advertising; merchants cannot pay to have their items show up closer to the top. Users will be able to drag-and-drop items to a shopping list and share lists with friends; see user reviews of products and sellers; and read and create public shopping guides on any subject.

OK, sounds like it's worth checking out. So I go to shopping.live.com and this is what I get:

We're sorry. Windows Live Shopping Beta does not yet support Firefox.
We're working to correct this as soon as possible.

I know, it's a beta site. But seriously, would ANYONE else even consider launching any kind of Web 2.0 site that only worked with Internet Explorer? You would get laughed out of existence, and even after you managed to get it to work no one would take you seriously. They still don't understand that the majority of early adopters these days are using browsers other than theirs.

I'm not a Microsoft basher, on the contrary for the most part I think they make best office productivity software in the world.  But stuff like this is just stupid, you really have to wonder what they're thinking sometimes.

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