Microsoft is yet again blocking Opera browser from their Hotmail and MSN web sites.
When accessing Hotmail, Opera browser is redirected to http://lc1.bay0.hotmail.passport.com/cgi-bin/login (64.4.32.7), which further redirects to http://ld.cb.msn.com/. This page finally reports "Server Error in '/' Application.", with message coming from Microsoft-IIS/6.0 server.
Accessing Hotmail from Internet Explorer and Mozilla FireFox works fine.
I wonder why Microsoft insists on blocking Opera, when other browsers (FireFox, Safari) are more agressive in taking over the desktop browser share from IE. Maybe because Opera holds a considerable market share of embedded (cell phones, PDA) browsers which are not free, and which could potentially bring to Microsoft real paper green money?
UPDATE: This seems to happen only from my home Verizon DSL connection. Very puzzling.
Posted by laza at February 5, 2005 07:50 PM | TrackBack