Microsoft plays dirty again (Opera Browser)

Metanis · Post by **Metanis** » February 10, 2003, 6:02 pm

Nothing new here, but you'd think Microsoft wouldn't be so painfully obvious about dicking around with other products. Maybe when Team-USA gets done in Iraq we should take down Redmond? Redmond has been taken over by the dark side. Damn Canadian infiltrators!

http://my.opera.com/dev/discussion/openweb/20030206/

kyoukan · Post by **kyoukan** » February 10, 2003, 6:04 pm

Incompatibility is what you get when you don't use the industry standard. IE is MS's browser and MSN is their webpages. It's their right to do what they want with it. It is a free market yes?

Animalor · Post by **Animalor** » February 10, 2003, 6:08 pm

You haven't read the article it seems. Opera reads the page that was sent to the MSIE just fine and it looks exactly like in IE.

MS purposefuly sends a flawed page to a browser that identify's itself as being Opera.

Post by **Xouqoa** » February 10, 2003, 6:39 pm

I wouldn't think that most Opera users would have anything to do with MSN.com anyway... I know I avoid that site like the plague. Yahoo > MSN.

Voronwë · Post by **Voronwë** » February 10, 2003, 6:55 pm

who the fuck goes to MSN.com?

kurzweil · Post by **kurzweil** » February 10, 2003, 7:01 pm

No surprise that Microsoft is doing something like that.

There was some app a few years ago that Microsoft didn't like...they specifically put code in so that it wouldn't run. The workaround was to just rename the app executable and everything was fine again. =/

Mak · Post by **Mak** » February 10, 2003, 8:11 pm

I think what MS is doing is crap, but having said that I will say the Opera 7.0 has some flaws that need to be fixed. I upgraded, then downgraded back to 6.05.