[Web4lib] Microsoft Book Search Misfire

[Jim Campbell]

When we were having problems a while back setting up our Open URL resolver
in Academic Live, I had a weekly e-mail exchange with folks at MS Live and
asked once about browser requirements. I was told that Academic would run on
any recent browser except Safari and was reminded that it's a Beta and told
that Safari access would be coming.  So just be patient and
some-day-year-decade you too wil get in.

- Jim Campbell
Campbell at Virginia.edu
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org 
> [mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Roy Tennant
> Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 1:17 PM
> To: web4lib at webjunction.org
> Subject: [Web4lib] Microsoft Book Search Misfire
> 
> I might have a few comments on the new Microsoft Book search 
> service <http://books.live.com/> if I could actually see it. 
> In a move that smacks completely of Microsoft, the site is 
> completely unusable on anything other than Windows. I've 
> tried Firefox, Opera, Safari, and even the very ancient 
> Internet Explorer on the Mac and none of them would display 
> any search results and one of them (notably MSIE, 
> interestingly enough) didn't even get far enough to _enter_ a 
> search. I would say "unbelievable" if it weren't, sadly 
> enough, quite believable.
> Roy
> 
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