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Microsoft supports Mozilla Firefox on their MSDN Wiki

Software giants Microsoft has said that they are now supporting the open source web browser Mozilla Firefox on their MSDN Wiki.

This is just one of the many steps Microsoft has taken in the recent weeks to show their support for the open source movement.

The Wiki is currently in the beta phase and the developers initially worked on to support the most widely used web browser online Internet Explorer.

Microsoft’s Rob Caron, a content architect for Visual Studio 2005 Team System spoke on this issue: “First, those who were initially dismayed by the lack of Firefox support should be happy to find that MSDN Wiki now supports Firefox for browsing and editing.”

Jaye Roxe, Microsoft lead product manager for Visual Studio added: “We always planned to support Firefox on MSDN Wiki. Due to resource and time constraints, Microsoft initially optimized for the browser that our logs indicated is most commonly used on our sites. However, in the long run, we wanted to ensure that our content was available to the widest scope of Web users. Since the initial release, we’ve been working hard to expand options for contributing to MSDN Wiki by adding support for Firefox.”

Support for other browsers like Opera? We will have to wait and see.