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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. Re:Newsflash by ooh456 · · Score: 0, Troll

    I am normally on the open source side of the argument...

    but I actually agree with AC and think he was unfairly modded down. When I read the headline, I immediately thought, "yeah, right." Love or hate MS, IE 6 usability and look and feel pretty much kicks ass. Once they plugged the vacuous security holes in Win XP SP-2, I only downloaded Firefox to test my sites on. IE will be the standard for a long time, and another reason to choose Windows over the 'competition'.

    The last time I downloaded and tested Opera, which had large banner ads rotating in the application space, it was third rate to Mozilla's second rate, and I was like, l8rz.

    And Dvorak seems to forget that MS has bought most of their good programs from other companies, including MS-DOS, the one that put the company into the big time. MS is vaccinated against "not-invented-here" syndrome. If anything they can't assimilate others faster enough... but not Opera (LOL)!