About a year ago, in an effort to promote their new Office Live package of we services, which include a website builder and business email, good ‘ol Billy would buy you a domain name just for trying it out.

Seeing as I love free stuff I figured why not, and registered MexicanCharters.com. (Someday I’m going to buy/steal a boat and move to Mexico to start a charter boating business) and put up a small 5 page site.

Today, I was going to go in and make a few changes to my site, and I found I couldn’t log in, instead being redirected to this page, which says:

Microsoft Office Live
In order to use Microsoft Office Live, you will need to have Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 or later running on Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, or Microsoft Windows Server 2003. You can download the latest version of Internet Explorer from the Internet Explorer downloads page.

How can it possibly make sense for M$ to not let people who have already stopped using some of your products not use any of your others as some sort of punishment?