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MSN Sabotages Opera
Posted by Steven Wu on Thursday, February 06 @ 13:48:40 EST Antitrust
As seen on a Slashdot, Microsoft and its MSN site deliberately send broken pages to people using the popular Opera browser. Opera has a full-blown analysis here. As the Opera site reminds us, this is not the first time Microsoft has tried to pull such a trick.
 
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Re: MSN Sabotages Opera (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Thursday, February 06 @ 16:34:09 EST
shouldn't that be illegal?

What it tries to do is to make new Opera users think that thier browser is broken, it is certainly not good ethics.


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Re: MSN Sabotages Opera (Score: 1)
by starbuck on Thursday, February 06 @ 19:02:10 EST
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A charge of sabotage requires intent. I see NOTHING in any of the stories that indicates MS deliberately chose to mess with Opera 7. This could just as easily be crappy legacy code. After-all, Opera 7 is brand new.


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