Black Raven Dragoons

[Zancarius]

So here I was, deciding to give Windows 7 another try. Since I still have a really old soundcard (sorry, onboard sound SUCKS), I was curious as to what was listed on the Microsoft hardware compatibility site. Wait til you see this.

First, I decided to click the help link from the MS help center. Easy enough, right? Since I had Firefox installed, it opened right up to...

...an error. The hardware compatibility site whines about requiring an "MSIE 6 or greater" browser. Fine. Whatever. If I really wanted to, I could add an extension to Firefox to fake the user-agent string anyway. But, let's make this easy and just use MSIE 8.

[img options=nowrap,noborder]http://forums.blackravendragoons.com/filelib/2/ie6-lawls.png[/img]

So much for that idea!

Sure, you can click on the link and view Vista's compatibility guide. That's fine. I just find it hilarious that the suggested site--doesn't work.

Edit: Sorry about the horizontal scrolling.

[Damorte]

IE8 isn't compatible with SQUAT.

[Zancarius]

It isn't so much about IE compatibility (admittedly this isn't really the browser's fault) as much as it is that the egghead developers at MS didn't have enough foresight to consider that, hey, they might have a new version of IE browsing their "compatibility" list.

It made me giggle.