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Dvorak Says MS Should Buy Opera

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the why-does-everybody-want-it-suddenly-huh dept.

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."

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  1. Who wants opera for 400 mil? by mj2k · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    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...

  2. Fucking Dvorak... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    LOL!!! Why the FUCK do people still listen to a fucking moron like Dvorak? I have more fucking tech savvy in my LEFT TESTICLE than he has!

    What does Opera really buy Microsoft? Damn near every site in the world still works on IE6, and there's a whole lot of websites that only work on IE6. Oh and how about all of the fucking web sites that DON'T render properly in Opera?

    We are all dumber for having read Dvorak's drivel.

  3. Dvorak? by Liam+Slider · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Since when has he been right about anything?

  4. you insenSitive clod! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    arseholes at wa7nut

  5. Re:Newsflash by UpnAtom · · Score: 0, Flamebait

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

  6. IE sucks... is not the way to win customers by twitter · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    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.

    --

    Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.