Turns out that Microsoft has their MSN website set up in such a way as to block out Opera and mozilla-based browsers. Basically, if you’re not using IE, you can’t get to MSN.

“Microsoft is actively keeping our browser from accessing MSN.com,” said Jon S. von Tetzchner, Opera’s chief executive.

Bears-cave says: we’re talking about MSN — the fact that you can’t get to it using Opera should be one of Opera’s biggest selling points.

[update: forgot to thank Ian for the news link.]