Microsoft Blocks Mac Browsers

I was attempting to check out the latest gas prices this eve on MSN Autos. I was a bit suprised to receive an error message when browsing with Safari. So I fired up trusty ‘ole FireFox because I refuse to use Internet Explorer on both OS X and Windows. Can’t give in to the man.

Anway, you can see the error message below:

I thought it was pretty lame to only support IE so I decided to fire up my XP laptop from work. As you can tell I was really desperate to find out where to get the cheapest gas. I started up FireFox (on XP) and tried to hit the url again. Lo and behold it worked! Can it possibly be true that M$ would write code that wouldn’t accept browsers from OS X?!?! What’s even worse is that they try and say it’s a browser issue which definitely is not the case. Surely not, but this post reminded me not to put it past them. Shame on you M$. I will find the offending code and exploit you! There’s always the case that M$ doesn’t test their code on OS X, but I still think there’s no excuse for this.