A spat between Norwegian web browser company Opera and software giant Microsoft has taken quite a surreal turn today.
Context: earlier this month Opera claimed Microsoft had deliberately set out to break its browser. It said Microsoft's MSN.com sent a rogue file to its browsers any time someone wanted to look at an MSN.com website. The file made it look as if Opera's browser was not displaying the page properly (CNET covered the story then). Microsoft has since stopped sending the file to Opera's newest browsers, but still sends it to older versions.
Well, in a retaliatory strike today, Opera has unveiled a new version of its browser: one that transforms any MSN.com webpage into the language of the Muppet Show's famous Swedish Chef, Bork (thus increasing its entertainment value by an almost incalculable degree).
"Hergee berger snooger bork," says Mary Lambert, product line manager desktop, Opera Software, in a press release today.
Marvellous stuff. Many thanks to reader Neil Turner for the tip.
