Oh, those pesky weasels at Microsoft are at it again.

They’ve configured their MSN site to render poorly in Opera, a competing and excellent browser. They’re doing this by checking the user agent and deliberately giving Opera a broken stylesheet. If you change the user-agent string to something else — that is, if you tell Opera to lie and say it’s not Opera — the MSN page magically works just fine. Opera software did a little investigation, which has a bit more technical detail.

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