Opera Claims Microsoft Has Poor Interoperability

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Opera Claims Microsoft Has Poor Interoperability

Posted by Zonk on Saturday February 12, 2005 @11:30AM from the tit-for-tat dept.

Noksagt writes "Opera CTO Hakon Lie has countered the claims that Bill Gates made regarding Microsoft's superior interoperability last week. He points out their invalid webpages, MS's unwillingness to serve the same content to different browsers, IE's poor CSS support, tardy documentation and limitations of their XML format, and more." From the article: "You say you believe in interoperability. Why then, did you terminate the Web Core Fonts initiative you started in 1996? You deserve credit for starting it, but why close down a project which could have given you yet much good will? (Verdana sucks, but Georgia is beautiful!)"

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I have to see this one! by bigtallmofo · 2005-02-12 11:34 · Score: 5, Funny

I'm not much into the fine arts, but someone's written an opera about Microsoft's poor interoperability?!

I can't wait to hear the fat lady sing in this one!

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1. Re:I have to see this one! by Sabathius · 2005-02-12 11:36 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  The "fat lady is hoarse form singing, my friend.
2. Re:I have to see this one! by Anonymous Coward · 2005-02-12 11:39 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Strange, I only knew there was this song...
  
  What a Microsoft World
  
  Don't know much about my CPU,
  Don't know what a DIMM's supposed to do,
  Don't know what a hard disk is for,
  Don't know how to overclock my core;
  But I do know that Microsoft rules,
  'cuz that's what they taught us all in school,
  Oh, What a Microsoft world it must be.
  
  Don't know why my screen is always blue,
  Don't know what these damn exceptions do,
  Don't know why my modem runs so slow,
  What it's sending out I just don't know;
  But I do know what the salesman said,
  Once I save enough to finally upgrade,
  What a wonderful world it will be.
  
  What would the BOFH do?
3. Re:I have to see this one! by magic_finale · 2005-02-12 11:45 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  sorry can't help it :P Ballmer: Bill, i've got a good news and a bad news.. Bill: what's it? Ballmer: Opera just bitched about our poor interoperability on slashdot... Bill: ... what's the good news? Ballmer: i just saved money on my car insurance...
4. Re:I have to see this one! by Xeo+024 · 2005-02-12 12:11 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  I can't wait to hear the fat lady sing in this one!
  If by fat lady you mean Steve Ballmer, then I can't wait either.
Actually by baryon351 · 2005-02-12 11:36 · Score: 1, Funny

(Verdana sucks, but Georgia is beautiful!

Actually verdana is the better font, and georgia is weak & problematic.
Of course they terminated Web Core Fonts by Anonymous Coward · 2005-02-12 11:42 · Score: 2, Funny

Now you can only get them with Windows. Just like a drug pusher... the first one's free, then you pay, and only from them.
Re:I'm tired of Microsoft bashing by NanoGator · 2005-02-12 11:56 · Score: 5, Funny

"Let's PRAISE Microsoft instead."

I'm so glad Microsoft brought Opera to my attention! Go Microsoft!!

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Georgia? by MostlyHarmless · 2005-02-12 11:56 · Score: 2, Funny

Quoth the summary:

"Verdana sucks, but Georgia is beautiful!"

The author obviously has never been to Atlanta. :-p

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Re:I'm tired of Microsoft bashing by ScrewMaster · 2005-02-12 12:06 · Score: 2, Funny

Nah ... it's free advertising. Why else do you think Microsoft has let Slashdot live?

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The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
My Dog... by Anonymous Coward · 2005-02-12 12:13 · Score: 2, Funny

My dog's better than your dog...
He points out their invalid webpages(; by rollx · 2005-02-12 12:28 · Score: 3, Funny

try to validate the www.msn.co.il (it's the israeli portal),
... and... you'll get 1338 errors (on 1 page!!!)
I think it tells a lot about this 1337 (+1) company
Interoperable.. by TheCeltic · 2005-02-12 12:41 · Score: 5, Funny

Supports Windows NT/XP/2K/Pocket PC. Now that's interoperability! NOT!

It's like C# being multiplatform... multiple windows platforms...

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Fonts! by kuzb · 2005-02-12 13:14 · Score: 4, Funny

Verdana sucks, but Georgia is beautiful!
Remind me not to hire you to design a website

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Re:I'm tired of Microsoft bashing by steeviant · 2005-02-12 22:52 · Score: 2, Funny

You have to admit that they're pretty good at some things

Like making money, getting away with breaking the law, and software installs are a breeze in windows, just browse the web for a while and software just installs itself without any help.