Guess what I found in my inbox today?

For a moment, that kind of made my day. I mean, I’ve been waiting almost a year for this mail to arrive. No kidding. I applied for the beta after reading GigaOm’s post about Xcerion’s Internet OS, XIOS (now apparently renamed icloud). That was on 1 April last year.

So. I receive the mail today to say that my beta account has been activated. Go me! I head on over to activate my account, invite a few friends.. and what do I see?

So much for beta testing. I guess April Fool’s came a year late for Xcerion. I’d have thought developing for a (relatively more) standards compliant browser like Firefox for something as Web-centric as an Internet OS might be something of a priority. Apparently I thought wrong.

Re-reading the article from GigaOm, I realise that “Xcerion counted Lou Perazzoli, a former Microsoft distinguished engineer and one of key architect of Windows NT, and John Connors, former Microsoft chief financial officer was an investor.”

Oh. I guess that makes sense.

HA. HA. HA.

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Well, yeah, I know it’s a beta and all, and we can’t expect everything to be perfect. But seriously, to develop only for IE? I would’ve thought it’s usually the other way around: developing first for compliant browsers, then mangling customising for IE. Xcerion must know something we don’t.

Still, I’m hoping they’ll buck up and come up with Firefox support soon, so people without access to IE can still give it a go.