Dvorak Says MS Should Buy Opera

patro writes "Should MS beef up cranky old Internet Explorer for today's standards? Dvorak thinks buying Opera would be a smarter move. It works on all the major platforms including the Mac which IE won't support anymore and $400 million for it is pocket money for Microsoft."

Comments

Who wants opera for 400 mil?

[mj2k]

Seriously, it's not that good... I tried it a while back and went back to firefox... It doesn't even make sense to buy opera for $400 mil, the browser market isn't that fertile any longer, and I for one wouldn't pay for opera when an open source alternative, that works better mind you, is available. MS couldn't hardly ask people to purchase the browser, after giving away IE for so long... It'd be like throwning $400 mil down a black hole, since they could derive no direct monetary benefit. Sure it might help PR, but I don't see people leaving windows over IE in droves; they've still got the monopoly, and as long as they continue to patch IE holes as they develop most clueless EU's will continue to use MS products... The only thing they could hope to do is bring back people who left for linux or more secure alternatives, but how many of us are going to do that? Not that many...

Dvorak?

[Liam Slider]

Since when has he been right about anything?

Re:Newsflash

[UpnAtom]

Opera is now free, no banner ads and makes Firefox look and feel like a Java app.

IE sucks... is not the way to win customers

[twitter]

Microsoft doesn't want a very nice UI for the web unless they control it. If the standards supported a nice neat replacement for your typical win32 gui then Microsoft is pretty much out of business as they currently stand

As any old yahoo can download Knoppix or Mepis and boot into and install a standards compliant browser on a platform that does not suck, Microsoft is already out of business. It's been obvious for years, they just don't know it yet.

Microsoft has been good enough at everything but delivering software. Game over.