Boy, this is a new one for me. I know enough about the Web to know that it is possible to detect the Browser which is being used to call a page, and I know that there are differences between Browsers. I also don't think this is right, but has anyone else ever seen the situation I am about to describe?

Cruising the Net. Click on a link. The Browser does its thing and an error message pops up to say "Sorry, your browser is no longer supported by Micro$oft, so you can't view this page."

Now, I could understand if it was a Micro$oft site or a techy style page, but no... It isn't. I have been to the site before. It is a couple of pictures, some links and a header and footer, just like 99.99999 percent of the pages we view all day, every day. Is Micro$oft so powerful that they can deny access to sites which they don't own and have no input to?

Why didn't the site just let me in and if the presentation failed, then explain why it happened?
I'm getting denied seervice because I do not run the current Browser from the big Computer Company?

Do you use a Browser sniffing technique on your site and refuse entry if I was not your preferred Browser?

Incidently, IE5 on a Mac.

First of all does it say micro$soft, or microsoft, there is a diffrence. I don't do browser sniffing, and I don't plan on doing so except for compatability reasons, but if I did I would require FireFox/Safari/Opera/Linux Browser, not IE

I don't do any form of browser sniffing on my site, except for the stats pages in cPanel. I know that loads of Microsoft sites, including Hotmail, try to deny you access if you don't use IE. I find it annoying that the most popular browser seems to be the one that supports the fewest standards and causes the most problems.

Well now there is some sort of adsence program where if you go to the extreme of it only people with Firefox can access your site. Maby the site you like to visit is pro IE so they want all of their users to switch back to IE. I do not see why people would block anyone to access their site but whatever.

The only time I am okay with it is when it is a page like windows update that kinda requires IE, but for anything it's just really rude, racsist, except not race, but browsers (I don't know what you call that)