[Am-info] Microsoft backpedals on MSN browser block

[madodel@ptdprolog.net]

Just saw this on the OS/2 user list and with all the drivel being dumped
on this list I wasn't sure if this was covered yet.  And the monopoly
continues to abuse:

Microsoft backpedals on MSN browser block:
http://two.digital.cnet.com/cgi-bin2/flo?y=eCDr0COuNm0KR0e2U0Ad

       Microsoft backpedals on MSN browser block 
       By Joe Wilcox and Sandeep Junnarkar
       Staff Writers, CNET News.com 
       October 25, 2001, 3:35 p.m. PT 

       Microsoft did an about-face Thursday by opening the redesigned
MSN.com Web
       site to some third-party browsers.

Which is an update to an article from Thursday:

       MSN.com shuts out non-Microsoft browsers 
       By Sandeep Junnarkar
       Staff Writer, CNET News.com 
       October 25, 2001, 11:30 a.m. PT 

       update Some people trying to access Microsoft's MSN.com with a
non-Microsoft
       browser are finding themselves locked out. 

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


Mark

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