This is not a secret, and web designers are paid to pay attention to these things. A functioning\u00a0website is one where everything works\u00a0no matter what browser calls it up.\u00a0If you want your website to reach the majority of users on the planet, it has to work with Chrome.<\/p>\n
Yet\u00a0Microsoft did not make the Skype website compatible with Chrome. This is as though they’d decided that Skype should be available only in the U.S. They’re saying, “We don’t want your money” to millions of people.<\/p>\n
Or, if you want to get paranoid, they’re saying, “Use our browser\u00a0or we won’t let\u00a0you use\u00a0Skype.”<\/p>\n
Perhaps\u00a0they still have that 20-year-old fantasy\u00a0of monopolizing the browser world (remember Netscape Navigator<\/a> and the Microsoft antitrust suit<\/a>?).<\/p>\n When big companies fail to make\u00a0their websites compatible with all browsers, we need to speak up.<\/p>\n For example, Dun and Bradstreet’s iUpdate also does not function on Chrome – despite the fact that their\u00a0database has some\u00a0235 million companies, according to their 10K filing<\/a>.<\/p>\n I really didn’t have a choice with D&B, as I had to update my company information. I registered my complaint with their support staff, and the woman sighed and said, “Yes, we know. We’re working on it.” OK – acceptable answer.<\/p>\n But Skype? Guess what, Microsoft – I\u00a0have other paid VOIP choices. You aren’t going to bully me\u00a0into using your inferior browser.<\/p>\n Today’s penny is a 1994 – the year Netscape Navigator was released.<\/p>\n [Graphic featured above is\u00a0“Browser Market Map June 2015<\/a>” by Wilbysuffolk – Stat Counter; green is countries where the majority of Internet users are on Chrome; red is Opera. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 via Commons]<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today I wanted to give Microsoft some money, but they wouldn’t let me. Because I wasn’t using THEIR browser. I know that sounds paranoid. You decide: I was trying\u00a0to add credit to my Skype account. The\u00a0website refused to cooperate. The bottom line from Skype\u00a0support chat was that I should switch browsers. To Internet Explorer. Owned … read more Day 65: The browser bully<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[318],"tags":[235,237,238,236,241,239,240],"class_list":["post-5461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-refraction","tag-235","tag-browsers","tag-chrome","tag-microsoft","tag-monopoly","tag-netscape","tag-skype"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5461"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5465,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5461\/revisions\/5465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Day](\"http:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Day-65-1994-300x252.jpg\")
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