Tuesday, 18. February 2003
Topic: - on February 18, 2003 at 11:30:33 AM CET
Opera turns Microsoft site into Muppet language
Norwegian software group Opera took a swipe at Microsoft on Friday by issuing 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 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.
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