I think this is my first comment here, so please excuse me if it is too plain but
This seems like a typical flamebait. Nothing of value, nothing to think about, nothing but childish hate (or maybe simply attention/backlink whoring).
This seems like a typical flamebait. Nothing of value, nothing to think about, nothing but childish hate (or maybe simply attention/backlink whoring).
The article is right in that Opera is last in browser market share. Would it be pushing as hard against Microsoft (and for as long; I wrote about Opera when they were saying exactly the same thing 2 years ago) if Opera was in say, 2nd?
That said, I did dislike the way MS dealt with competition back in the Netscape days - they have become considerably less 'evil', but a lot of that old animosity remains. I think it will eventually die off, but until then I think MS has an uphill battle with a lot of hackers out there. Plus, Microsoft bashing is something of a sport amongst Linux users like myself - I doubt I'll use Win7 just because I prefer the feature set and interface of Linux, but that doesn't mean that I necessarily thing it is a bad product (won't stop me from bashing WinME/Vista, though :-).
The EU courts, though - I think they are just trying to keep big American companies in check, give them a wake up call telling them that they can't think that the EU market is going to be business as usual. Intel is getting the same message, from what I've read.
Only if you stop the list as soon as you get to Opera
I was talking about the 'major' players. IE, Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera. (Browsers that have a reach of 5% or more in all the sites I manage.) This is discounting mobile browsers, IE derivatives, the likes of Konqueror, etc.