[luau] Microsoft doesn't allow other browsers than IE or Netscape on parts of hotmail

Warren Togami warren at togami.com
Fri May 17 02:49:49 PDT 2002


The following is so obviously anti-competative.

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=32761&cid=3534671
Identify as Opera: dont work
Identify as Mozilla 5.0: dont work
Identify as Mozilla 4.76: Works
Identify as Mozilla 3.0: dont work
Identify as MSIE 5.0: Works(duh!)

----- Original Message -----
From: "The penguin" <penguin at ryuhei.myip.org>
To: <luau at videl.ics.hawaii.edu>
Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 10:33 PM
Subject: [luau] Microsoft doesn't allow other browsers than IE or Netscape
on parts of
 hotmail


> After reading slashdot about Microsoft changing the personal profile on
> hotmail to be viewable to anyone, I decided to turn the thing off.
> When trying to change the Personal Profile option in hotmail you must use
a
> IE or Netscape to access it.  I think Ms is trying to be very
> anti-competitive as we already know. This is dirty!
>
> Ryuhei





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