Brett_Tabke - 6:14 pm on May 24, 2004 (gmt 0)

Wow!

Microsoft was alleged (we all saw it) to intentionally block Opera browser a few years ago from MSN. It was obvious by simply changing any character in the Opera Agent string, that MSN would work perfectly.

> Serving different style sheets would have been correct.

That maybe part of it, but I think mostly what we are talking about here is the incident, where microsoft intentional either blocked, or broke access to microsoft.com.

One of the more interesting statements in the article:

Microsoft has effectively abandoned significant browser development efforts. That's left companies with negligible market share such as Opera and Netscape's Mozilla open-source project to lead innovation in the field.

IE is certainly looking very dated these days.