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CNET - Microsoft behind $12 million payment to Opera

Postby DJGM » Mon 24 May, 2004 3:18 pm

Microsoft behind $12 million payment to Opera
Last modified: May 24, 2004, 4:00 AM PDT

By Evan Hansen and Paul Festa
Staff Writer, CNET News.com


Microsoft agreed to pay Norway's Opera Software $12.75 million to head off a threat-
ened lawsuit over code that made some web pages on MSN look bad in certain
versions of Opera's web browser, CNET News.com has learned.

Opera disclosed the payment last week in a terse press release that omitted other
details, including the name of the settling party and the nature of the dispute.

But a source indicated that the payment came from Microsoft in order to close
the books on a clash over obscure interoperability problems. On at least three
separate occasions, Opera has accused Microsoft of deliberately breaking int-
eroperability between its MSN Web portal and various versions of the Opera
browser--charges that the software giant has repeatedly denied.


Read the rest of this (quite extensive) CNET article here . . .
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Postby Wellander » Mon 24 May, 2004 3:50 pm

Hi,
Very interesting.
I love it.
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Postby Don_HH2K » Mon 24 May, 2004 5:08 pm

Athough I'm not surprised if that was true, I can find no reference to Opera anywhere in the MSN.com source code.
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Postby Wellander » Mon 24 May, 2004 5:11 pm

Hi,
It is user agent is what to look for.
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Postby Don_HH2K » Mon 24 May, 2004 5:13 pm

Wellander wrote:Hi,
It is user agent is what to look for.

I also found no reference to the useragent in it.
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Postby Edward » Tue 25 May, 2004 7:15 pm

This press release has some background on the issue (I think...)
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Postby Don_HH2K » Tue 25 May, 2004 7:57 pm

OK then, that is quite odd. Especially the language issue.
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Postby Mandrake » Tue 01 Jun, 2004 6:16 am

If I were Microsoft, I'd have counter-sued for making a version of the Opera web browser that deliberatley made the MSN site appear differently to how it should have appeared.
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Postby Jeffredo » Tue 01 Jun, 2004 7:38 am

The Opera "Bork" edition was meant as a tongue-in-cheek poke at MS and it's browser sniffing discrimination against Opera users visiting the MSN site and was something one had to purposely download knowing what it would do when visiting that site. Now if Opera had set their regular browser to do the "Swedish Chef" thing MS might have a legal leg to stand on! :wink:
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Postby Edward » Wed 02 Jun, 2004 9:09 pm

MSN comes up quite good with the Windows version of Opera, ID'ing as Opera.
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