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[Nvyseal]

There was no immediate response from Mozilla to Microsoft's unorthodox approach. While Microsoft has been at odds with the open source community, the company's recent overture is seen by some industry watchers as a concession that it's no longer a Windows-only world.

Microsoft has issued an open invitation to the Mozilla Corp. to bring both its Firefox browser and Thunderbird e-mail application into the Windows fold. In order to be fully compatible with the open source community, Microsoft is letting businesses and consumers know the forthcoming Vista operating system will support a broad array of software options.

Sam Ramji, director of Microsoft's Open Source Software Lab, made the offer in a posting on the Mozilla development planning Web site, writing that the lab is willing to provide one-on-one support in getting Firefox and Thunderbird to run on the next-generation OS.

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[m.oreilly]

gosh, the first thing i do after a vista install is to get FF and TB on...you mean, they might not work in the final release???

[theman]

I've noticed that although FF does run nicely on Vista, not all the graphical elements look or function the way they should, i.e. progress bars. Good to hear that!

[Scuba]

It makes me happy to see they are going to help out FF and TB. I hate IE. Microsoft is growing up *tear* im so proud.