zulu9812
The Newbie Nightmare
Using Opera 7 to acess Hotmail 
It should be noted that Opera works just fine with Hotmail...
It should be noted that Opera works just fine with Hotmail...
Microsoft up to their old tricks again
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cgannon64
BOB DYLAN'S ROCKIN OUT!
Seriously? They LIE, saying Opera 7 won't work with Hotmail, and it does? 
That's messed up.
You must admit, Microsoft is as smart as it is willing to lie...
That's messed up.You must admit, Microsoft is as smart as it is willing to lie...
Yes, they had the MSN site formatted on purpose so that if it detected users using Opera it would load different style sheets, so as to make it look like Opera couldn't handle the tables properly.
People, even edited the Opera exe file to change the browser identification string, and when Opera was fed the same style sheets as IE it displayed the same as IE.
In, response to this Opera Software released Opera Bork edition which changed all the text on the MSN site to the language of the chef in the muppets.
People, even edited the Opera exe file to change the browser identification string, and when Opera was fed the same style sheets as IE it displayed the same as IE.
In, response to this Opera Software released Opera Bork edition which changed all the text on the MSN site to the language of the chef in the muppets.
The reason they "cannot guarantee" that Opera will work, is because last year they tried to insert code that looked for Opera browsers, and deliberately screwed up the output for them. The problem only lasted a few hours, until the outrage "hit the fan", and they took out the offending code.
The pulled the same trick with Windows 3. It wouldn't load on PC-DOS, DR-DOS or IBM-DOS, but when people edited the files....it worked fine.
www.xbox.com is loading fine with Opera 7.01 - just very slow....
zulu9812
The Newbie Nightmare
I now get that screen once every 24 hours. fudgingg MS - it's enough to make me stop using Hotmail, not d/l IE!!!
zulu9812
The Newbie Nightmare
I've actually discovered that that screen shows up every time your unbox has a new email, which is very, very sneaky...
Has anyone else experienced this?
Has anyone else experienced this?
TheDS
Regular Riot
yes. I've used several different browsers, and none of them feels as "good" as IE. Mind you, I hate the way IE crashes all the time, and tries to bring down the OS with it (especially W98), but when it works, I like it. Everything else just seems to feel goofy to me. Opera (6.4) came close to switching me, as I tried it a lot longer than Netscape (about a month!), but in the end, it was just more hassle than I wanted.
