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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."
The frosty piss is mine!
I hope not, MS will ruin it like everything else they touch
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)!
AHHHH!! As if IE isn't following the standards enough already! And Opera! Only 3/10 of the internet works properly on Opera! What is CSS? Durr!!