msn.com blocks non-Microsoft browsers

[Tom Achtenberg]

Interesting, I tried it with my Mozilla and was not able to get in and most sites think it is Netscape.  Oh well, I never go there anyway.  Interesting part is Qwest only supports Netscape yet they are trying to force the DSL subscribers to use MSN as their ISP.

-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Alexander [mailto:m@netpro.to]
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 10:12 AM
To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
Subject: msn.com blocks non-Microsoft browsers


msn.com blocks non-Microsoft browsers:

http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7655334.html

In addition, it looks like msn.com encourages users to upgrade to the
latest version of IE when accessing the site.  Since most people use IE,
and the default home page is msn.com, I can see how Microsoft can start
using msn.com to force users to upgrade their web browser.  Then they can
slowly start adding new features to the browser that lock users even more
into Microsoft-only sites/software/whatever.  I'm guessing that users will
soon have to sign up for a Passport account when browsing Microsoft sites
or using IE.  Then Microsoft can use the millions of people signed up for
Passport as evidence of it's success and then "encourage" other websites
such as Amazon and ebay to use it exclusively for their users.  The end
result will be an even more difficult time for people attempting to use
non-Microsoft software on the Internet.
~M

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