MSN web site inaccessible to competing browsers

>ITWorld.com (written permission required for deep links++, so I 
>can't be more specific) has an article

Written permission my arse. You mean this series of lies and 
rewritten press releases?

<http://www.itworld.com/AppDev/1562/IDG011026MSN/>

>saying that MSN.COM was temporarily inaccessible ("please upgrade" 
>message) to older and non-Microsoft browsers and will always be 
>degraded to non-Microsoft browsers (although they claim the 
>degradation is a result of a failure to implement the "latest 
>standards for XHTML", which could be OK if the degradation is 
>graceful).

This is a somewhat outdated reportage of the story. See:

<http://www.contenu.nu/article.htm?id=1201>
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7655334.html?tag=prntfr>
<http://www.zeldman.com/daily/com1001c.html#liarliar>
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Received on Sunday, 28 October 2001 15:18:44 UTC