Bug#541658: problem not only in the network

[sasha mal]

Daniel,

it's great that you are dealing with that.

I've just now tried  lynx, firefox, safari on Mac OS X 10.5.8 from the same network. With the result that
- lynx 2.8.6rel.5 opens both research.microsoft.com and research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/thoare even when all cookies are accepted, and many more pages from the domain (but, trivially, refuses to open aspx pages),
- firefox 3.6.4 refuses to open any pages under research.microsoft.com
- safari Version 5.0 (5533.16) refuses to open any pages under research.microsoft.com

In my roles as an internet user I don't understand the technical stuff.
But I do see that the most popular browser (IE) displays the page. And I do see that it is technically possible for the open browsers like lynx.

So, given that Microsoft's IE on Windows is the most popular browser, whether we want it or not, Microsoft defined the standard. Not the HTTP or other specifications. Thus:
firefox is defective.

Currently, this nonconformant behaviour prevents me from using firefox and makes me use lynx or IE. Not only me. All research folks too. As long as MS doesn't care about how we want them to behave, we have to stick to their standards.

Thus: reopening the bug.

Sasha.