Me.com on PC

What use is me.com as an "accessible anywhere" program if it can't be accessed through Internet Explorer?!

At work our computers are only available with IE, but without IE support from me.com it's largely redundant.

...sorry, rant over now, just annoying to discover this today.

 

Well you can still use IE7...just not all features are supported, the interface sucks, and it runs slowly.....

On a side note, shouldn't you be convincing your work IT department to at least allow people to use firefox (or rather, couldn't you install it yourself? I'm sure there's a portable version of FF3 that you can download and use from anywhere on the system without installation too.)...

 

Yup portable firefox will run from a folder on your desktop without admin rights.

 

I use portable ff3 at work but I also have ie7. Mobile Me works in both, though perhaps a little better in ff3. I'm a little dissapointed MM didn't include web versions of pages, keynote and numbers. Now that would really rock. To be able to use the Mac apps I know and love and do it from a browser. Or even back to my mac through a browser rather than only through another mac. But aside from these, I think MM is a decent deal for backups, well integrated and easy web publishing (iweb/iphoto) and access to email/contacts/calendar from anywhere with a web browser. Will I keep up my subscription for years to come? Perhaps not but I can see another year. Drivehq is cheaper for files. Flickr is cheaper for photos. And so on... but MM does a good job of pulling all this content together and integrating it nicely with OS X. Would I use MM if I only ran windows? I think not. But as an OS X user, it's a nice thing to have.

I can't tell you how handy it is to be able to pull up my mac from the Apple store. No lugging it in. I can do it using back to my mac. And then I can show the tech what is going wrong and they can either walk me through a workaround or confirm that the feature isn't supported just yet.

How much is it worth it to me? I went to glance at the firefox version of calendar just now in preparing this post and it reminded me my wife's birthday is tomorrow. Priceless. I think I can find the money for another two years at least.

 

I will say that while I don't think Apple is doing any good by not supporting IE, I don't blame them either. IE is a broken web browser that defies lots of web standards in Microsoft's attempt to take over the browser market. Sure, none of the browsers (I believe Opera is best at this) are 100% standards-compliant, but IE is among the worst and if the reason MobileMe doesn't work well with IE is because its IE doesn't follow standards, then I don't think its Apple's fault.

 

I think Safari's dev preview is actually ahead of Opera's beta on the acid3 test 100 vs 99 yay apple...

now if only the actual interface was a bit better...