You see, I was just contemplating signing up for the Microsoft Action Pack, for 200 quids this gets you a years subscription to lots of microsoft software, including Windows Server 2008, Exchange 2007, Vista Premium etc etc, good value. There are some restrictions however. As I was contemplating upgrading my Windows Server 2003 and Exhange 2003 server this seemed like a ideal time to 'enroll'.
Anyways, from my iMac I decided to start the enrollment process, first step is to sign in with a silly microsoft windows Live ID, Sounds really cool huh?! but it's not, it was Microsofts attempt to get everybody to have a single sign in account for everything, kinda pants really. They are still hanging on to it for now and as there seems to be no way round it I had to begin the process.
I already have a 'Live ID' which I use for MSN Messenger (or whatever fancy new name it has these days, no doubt having 'Live' in the title) so I proceeded to sign in with that, all good so far until I clicked 'sign-in'
BOOM! "Browser Support Warning"
Problem Encountered
You are using an unsupported Internet browser. Please use the most recent non-beta version of Internet Explorer to access this page. If you continue you will likely experience performance issues. Please download this supported version or proceed to the PMC page you requested.
How damn annoying, I tried with both Safari and Firefox, no go. So I either go find a Windows PC and try again or just forget it??
1 comments:
Well I decided to fire up Vmware and start a XP virtual machine.
The next stupid thing is where they as you for a telephone number during the enrollment procedure.
You see they get clever and decide to format the phone number for you with +44 for country, followed by area code in brackets, followed by your number. However, they wrongly assume that all UK phone numbers are 6 digits. BZZZZT wrong answer Bill, ours is only 5 digits, fix your
script?
Anyway I got round it by just adding an extra digit :)
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