Hmmmm. Opera Swipes at Microsoft with Muppet Browser Fri February 14, 2003 01:53 PM ET By John Acher
OSLO (Reuters) - Norwegian software group Opera took a swipe at U.S. giant Microsoft MSFT.O on Friday by issuing a an Internet browser that converts text on Microsoft's Web Site into the nonsense language of a popular television puppet. When Opera users visit Microsoft's MSN site (http://www.msn.com/) with the new browser, the text displayed there appears to them in a language mimicking that of the Swedish chef on the popular "Muppet Show," Opera said in a statement. "This joke is for real," Opera's chief technology officer Haakon Wium Lie told Reuters. Opera calls its new browser the "Bork edition" after the "Bork, Bork, Bork!" sound made by the Swedish chef Muppet. In the chef's mock Swedish, the MSN site headline "Weekend movie guide" is rendered "Veekend mufeee-a gooeede-a" and "Looking for a new car?" is "Luukeeng fur a noo cer?" to Opera browser users. More at: http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=2232212 Todd
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