Microsofties writing code for Firefox
This morning when I did my digg routine I stumbled upon a link which was pointing to Photosynth software (which development I followed in the last 6 months) from Microsoft labs. To my surprise I was able to install the Firefox extension from live.labs.com .
I won’t comment on the Photosynth software. I will just say that is strange, beautiful, and without a doubt I am not able to get a useful thing out of it other than the kind of fun I get when I am playing a nice game. I would really like to see what’s behind the software (the magic that makes everything happen).
The most interesting part is the fact that if I am not mistaking this is the first piece of software from Microsoft which can be run in a browser other than Internet Explorer. Is something similar with Bush and Bin Laden having a coffee together. It is the first sign that Microsoft is recognizing the life outside their empire. I wonder if this extension is running on Linux also. My laptop is an Ubuntu Linux machine, but the video card is too weak. That would be even more interesting.
The question to ask is what are the real plans of Microsoft? Why are they writing an extension just to make sure that the 80% users of Internet Explorer and the 15% users of Firefox are using this software?
