Microsoft did an about-face Thursday by opening the redesigned MSN.com Web site to some third-party browsers. As first reported by CNET News.com, some Mozilla and Opera users found Thursday that they could not access the new MSN site. Instead, they were given the option of downloading a version of Microsoft's Internet Explorer. But later Thursday, Microsoft decided to change its position. "We are going to support the latest versions of Opera and Mozilla so people will be able to get the MSN experience," said Bob Visse, MSN's director of marketing. But, Visse warned, "the experience may be slightly degraded simply because they don't support the standards we support closely, as far as the HTML standard in those browsers." Currently, using the most recent browser from Mozilla.org to reach MSN.com brings a message from Microsoft saying it has "detected that the browser that you are using will not render MSN.com correctly."
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