Members of the Firefox team visited Microsoft in Redmond, Seattle, as part of Microsoft's efforts to get Firefox running as well as possible on Windows Vista. Vladimir Vukićević has blogged the visit in four posts, starting with Redmond, Pt. 1. The others are Redmond, pt. 2, Redmond, pt. 3 and Redmond, pt. 4. He concludes: "Overall, it was a very productive and useful visit; we've got a whole bunch of new things to look at, and hopefully we gave the folks at Microsoft some useful ideas about areas in which they could work with us and with other open source projects."
Ars Technica has a brief summary.
Comment: The Vista Compatibility Lab is part of Microsoft's standard approach to helping independent software vendors, many of whom have staff permanently based in Microsoft's offices in Redmond. (In the case of some large vendors, such as Symantec, Microsoft also has full time staff assigned to work with them.) This particular expedition attracted attention because it's the first time Microsoft has offered the facilities it provides to commercial developers to an open source project.
