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The Swedish Chef Goes After Microsoft

  Date:Feb 14 2003

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Webmaster's note: Not Linux news per se, but shows what kind of tactics Microsoft uses against its competitors and how some like Opera don't take it lying down

Two weeks ago it was revealed that Microsoft's MSN portal targeted Opera users, by purposely provided them with a broken page. As a reply to MSN's treatment of its users, Opera Software today released a very special Bork edition of its Opera 7 for Windows browser. The Bork edition behaves differently on one Web site: MSN. Users accessing the MSN site will see the page transformed into the language of the famous Swedish Chef from the Muppet Show: Bork, Bork, Bork!




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