MSN Blocks Mozilla, Other Browsers [updated]

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday October 25, 2001 @06:28AM from the darn dept.

k_hokanson writes: "I was just going to check out some tasty news articles, with my trusty Mozilla, at MSN. but what do I get when I go there? A nice little message telling me that 'in order to display this page properly', I have to get the latest version of IE! And no, there's no option to display it incorrectly. " Enough people have submitted this story that it can't be an isolated case;) Thanks, Microsoft. Here's the story on Yahoo!. CT: telling konqueror to lie about its User Agent causes the page to render correctly save the background which is the wrong color. Update: 10/25 23:19 GMT by T : kuwan writes "Looks like Microsoft was getting too much heat. CNet is reporting that Microsoft is backing off on their browser block. I'm only wondering how long it will be before they do it again with some other excuse as to why we all need IE."

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Nobody Wearing Brown Lipstick Today? by PingXao · 2001-10-25 08:00 · Score: 1, Offtopic
Whenever there's an MS-bashing story on /. the responses usually fall into these categories:
1. This proves MS is evil
2. Maybe it's an honest mistake
3. If you don't like MS don't use their stuff
4. MS is being unfairly criticised again
It's quite amazing that so far there are no posts I can see falling into category number 4 on this story. What happened to all the MS apologists? No astroturfers? Nobody rising to their defense on this? No undercover MS agents or employees have an opinion on this? Very interesting......