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Tuesday, December 20 2005

Microsoft and Mozilla working together?

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Granted, it's not exactly the Dayton Peace Accords. But Microsoft's Internet Explorer group and the rival Firefox browser team surprised the technology world last week with a small token of cooperation. To be precise, it was a tiny orange icon. Microsoft worked out an arrangement to use the same symbol that Firefox does to alert people when a Web page makes extra streams of information available for subscription.

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The industry has seen bigger deals, to put it mildly. In fact, describing it as a deal might be a stretch. It was an informal agreement, with no money changing hands, said Sean Lyndersay, lead program manager on Microsoft's Internet Explorer team.

But the mere idea that the two camps were talking caused a stir -- with some analysts wondering whether they might be capable of reaching consensus on more weighty matters, such as standards for the way Web pages are made and displayed.

Microsoft doesn't rule out the possibility of further cooperation. Nor does Mozilla Corp., which distributes the open-source Firefox browser. But to a certain extent, the surprise over the arrangement reflects a misperception about the browser market, Lyndersay said.

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