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Post #79,759

2/5/03 11:44:17 PM

what else is new

ever try looking up stuff at Microsoft.com using Mozilla? It doesn't work. I always end up using internet exploiter when researching problems for work.

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Post #79,823

by admin

2/6/03 10:29:43 AM

Works for me.

Mozilla 1.2.1 on Linux.

I don't look up a *lot* of things there, but often enough that I would notice it.

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Post #79,844

by SpiceWare

2/6/03 11:53:02 AM

interesting

results come back the same now.

I'd gotten into the habit of using IE when hitting support.microsoft.com due to the lack of results, guess I'll have to break that nasty habit :-)

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Post #79,890

by Andrew Grygus

2/6/03 2:16:35 PM

This is a long standing Microsoft technique

They've done this for many years. Cause a problem for a competitive product and let the problem stand just long enough to give the competitor a bad reputation. Then fix the problem without notice and imply it never existed.

Opera is, I'm sure, very aware of this, and has taken strong publicity countermeasures early enough to be effective

Microsoft will target Opera very strongly because it is currently the leading browser for the enhanced mobile phone market, a huge market Microsoft dearly wants to dominate.

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Post #79,907

by folkert

2/6/03 4:16:52 PM

a huge market Microsoft dearly wants to dominate.

a huge market Microsoft dearly wants to dominate.

Doesn't that seem to apply to ANY market that has US$100M(+-$100M) in sales per year?

I'd think the hydra that Microsoft has become is leading it into having to many heads to feed. Next you know they'll be feasting on that good looking foot over there... which doesn't seem to be attached to Microsoft in anyway... but it is.

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Post #80,049

by static

2/7/03 6:04:32 AM

Probably. But this one is a little special.

The mobile phone market is not only a market that Opera is wiping the floor with Microsoft, but a market that is actively keeping Microsoft out. All the big players have deliberately turned their backs on Microsoft.

Opera also has a reputation for being responsive and open. Their bug reporting team are quite good, so it's not that surprising they have gotten on top of MSN's tricks this quick. And reported it very loudly. Slashdot even obliged by linking to an old CNN story when MSN did it last time.

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