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Bork Opera ... LMAO

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"Two weeks ago it was revealed that Microsoft's MSN portal targeted Opera users, by purposely provided them with a broken page. As a reply to MSN's treatment of its users, Opera Software today released a very special Bork edition of its Opera 7 for Windows browser. The Bork edition behaves differently on one Web site: MSN. Users accessing the MSN site will see the page transformed into the language of the famous Swedish Chef from the Muppet Show: Bork, Bork, Bork!"

Wish they'd release a Linux version of this!

Und tooday ve make de fishy stew ... bork bork bork 😀
 
Sheesh....Opera doesn't have time to make their mail client work, can't make their bookmarks match the Hotlist order and multi-media handling is a joke, but they've got time to do THIS?!?

This reminds me on Valve being unable to get TF2 done, but able to do a complete conversion of Quake with the HL engine.
 
"About" is bork-ed too 🙂

Permeessiun tu use-a, cupy, mudeeffy, und deestriboote-a thees sufftvere-a fur uny poorpuse-a veethuoot fee-a is hereby grunted, prufeeded thet thees inture-a nuteece-a is inclooded in ell cupeees ooff uny sufftvere-a vheech is oor incloodes a cupy oor mudeefficeshun ooff thees sufftvere-a und in ell cupeees ooff zee sooppurteeng ducoomenteshun fur sooch sufftvere-a. Bork Bork Bork!

THIS SOFTVERE IS BEING PROFIDED "ES IS", VITHOOoT ENY IXPRESS OoR IMPLIED VERRENTY. IN PERTICOoLER, NEITHER THE EOoTHOR NOR LOoCENT MEKES ENY REPRESENTETION OoR VERRENTY OoF ENY KIND CONCERNING THE MERCHENTEBILITY OoF THIS SOFTVERE OoR ITS FITNESS FOR ENY PERTICOoLER POoRPOSE. Bork Bork Bork!
 
Originally posted by: singh
Wow, what a professional attitude. Not!
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Yes, it was unprofessional of Microsoft to deliberately send a broken style sheet only to Opera browsers. Very childish and stupid of them.
 
Yes, it was unprofessional of Microsoft ...
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Of course it was, but I was referring to Opera Software. It would have took Opera programmers all of 2 seconds to alter the user agent string for MSN, but look at what they did instead.

 
Originally posted by: singh
Yes, it was unprofessional of Microsoft ...
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Of course it was, but I was referring to Opera Software. It would have took Opera programmers all of 2 seconds to alter the user agent string for MSN, but look at what they did instead.
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You know, sometimes proffesionalism get a little full of itself ... it's nice to see somebody with a sense of humor once in awhile.
Besides, why should they alter their user agent string and make it appear that Microsofts marketshare is even bigger then it is (and make standards compliant coding even less likely).
 
You know, sometimes proffesionalism get a little full of itself ... it's nice to see somebody with a sense of humor once in awhile
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For a small company trying to make a place for itself, I think professionalism is an absolute must.


Besides, why should they alter their user agent string and make it appear that Microsofts marketshare is even bigger then it is (and make standards compliant coding even less likely).
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Why? For their users. Why make such a fuss of it? Just change the user agent string and move on. Better yet, give the users the option of specifying the string themselves (would be a helpful feature regardless of this situation actually).


 
Originally posted by: singh
You know, sometimes proffesionalism get a little full of itself ... it's nice to see somebody with a sense of humor once in awhile
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For a small company trying to make a place for itself, I think professionalism is an absolute must.
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Maybe they just needed to blow off some steam? I think its funny. 🙂


Besides, why should they alter their user agent string and make it appear that Microsofts marketshare is even bigger then it is (and make standards compliant coding even less likely).
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Why? For their users. Why make such a fuss of it? Just change the user agent string and move on. Better yet, give the users the option of specifying the string themselves (would be a helpful feature regardless of this situation actually).
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I believe you can, or atleast I think you could in previous versions.
 
Besides, why should they alter their user agent string and make it appear that Microsofts marketshare is even bigger then it is (and make standards compliant coding even less likely).
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Why? For their users. Why make such a fuss of it? Just change the user agent string and move on. Better yet, give the users the option of specifying the string themselves (would be a helpful feature regardless of this situation actually).[/quote]

You already can.

Personally I think it's amusing given MS's apparent disire to send a broken style sheet to Opera (and Mozilla I believe). It irritated the hell out of me for a few days as I use MSN as my default startup page.
It's not the first time they've done it either.

At least they got some media attention out of this, any by way of that negative attention drawn to MS.
 
Originally posted by: singh
You know, sometimes proffesionalism get a little full of itself ... it's nice to see somebody with a sense of humor once in awhile
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For a small company trying to make a place for itself, I think professionalism is an absolute must.
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Proffesionalism where it matters.
Here, it's just fun and possibly good advertising. If I ran Windows, I would download it just to see the borkification 🙂 So they'd have another set of eyeballs on their product that they wouldn't have had otherwise. Hell, a frontpage article on slashdot probably made a good bump in their sales.


Besides, why should they alter their user agent string and make it appear that Microsofts marketshare is even bigger then it is (and make standards compliant coding even less likely).
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Why? For their users. Why make such a fuss of it? Just change the user agent string and move on. Better yet, give the users the option of specifying the string themselves (would be a helpful feature regardless of this situation actually).
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There's such a thing as taking a stand. That's proffesionalism for you. I'm sick of seeing companies roll over on crap because it's expedient even if its wrong.
MS is playing dirty pool. They wouldn't stand a chance of rectifying it through any sort of legal channels, so they poke fun at it. Helps them, and maybe puts a speck of mud on MS.

 
You know to all those out there in a snit:disgust:, take it for what it is, a PROTEST! 😛 There are quite a few benefits as well. It is great advertising for their company, it makes opera users a bit prouder, and it gives MOST people a good chuckle. Hell, I laughed for a half hour when I loaded it and tired it.😀
Not only that, I wrote opera with the message below, I was serious too. (plus I grew up on the muppets😀)

" The Bork update. I LOVE IT. YOUR BEST VERSION BY FAR TO DATE. Please keep this in later versions, and maybe add a BORK, BORK button so we can make our days a little better.
IMPORTANT!!! Please consider making the chef from the muppets your mascott. You could even make a little assistant option kinda like they have in office. YOU WOULD MAKE MY YEAR, AND I AM SERIOUS... "

As my last words on the subject, "here chic, chic, chic, BORK, BORK"😉
 
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