Opera Purchase Rumour Control

We've had several submissions this morning concerning a CoolTechZone article stating that Microsoft has purchased Opera, seemingly confirming the Dvorak article we reported on yesterday. However, roblimo has followed up with Opera and found that to be (so far), less than true. Opera PR person Berit Hanson told Slashdot by phone from Oslo, Norway, that "last week it was Google, this week it's Microsoft." She laughed and added, "If I was working for Microsoft I think I'd know it, but I'm still in Oslo, not Washington, still working for Opera." Which, of course, is not to say it won't happen ... it just hasn't happened yet.

Comments

I nominate this for Slashdot Story of the Year

[Anonymous Coward]

Microsoft to buy Opera... maybe... not yet, but it could happen someday.

FASCINATING.

Re:I nominate this for Slashdot Story of the Year

[AndroidCat]

I thought the story was that Opera had purchased some company called Rumour Control.

Other way 'round

[trianglecat]

Actually I heard that Opera was thinking of buying Microsoft.

My prediction

[Piroca]

Is for the Mozilla foundation buying Opera

The PR gal is a hottie

[Anonymous Coward]

I think I'll too have to call her about this rumour.

So ?

[alexhs]

Slashdot. Counternews for nerds, Stuff that might matter one day... or not.

They cross-check the articles now?

[rainer_d]

Christ! What's next? No more dupes? No more early "FreeBSD x has been released"?
An early New Years Resolution?
I'm speechless.

Harpo

[Anonymous Coward]

Why would Bill Gates want to buy Oprah... her shows suck.

-Sj53

Microsoft to buy the Internet from Al Gore

[wasserja]

I just read from www.icantbelieveitsnottrue.com that Microsoft has inked a deal with Al Gore to purchase the rights to the Internet.

Re:Oh thank God

[tomcres]

John Dvorak is like those crazy preachers that predict the end of the world every five years, and then every five years make adjustments to their original predicitons. He's the Charles Taze Russell or Ellen G. White of computing.

Re:i heard

[S.O.B.]

men would live on the moon by 1999

Don't do it. They'll be forced to wear polyester suits with bell bottoms. Then there'll be a horrible accident and the moon will get blown out of Earth's orbit and send the moon and it's inhabitants on an interstellar journey encountering alien races and strange powerful forces. Wait...it's 2005 and that hasn't happened. Damn you Gerry and Sylvia Anderson! Damn you all to hell!!!

Re:Dvorak

[Professor_UNIX]

People actually listen to that diseased gadfly?

I hear a lot of people use his keyboard layout.

Worse

[Anonymous Coward]

opera is a horrible browser. why would microsoft want to purchase opera? oh wait..

Yours is an urttely incorrect, lame, unsubstantited and totally asinine comment. Why would it get modded up at Slashdot? Oh, wait...

Extra, extra, read all about it!

[Odin's Raven]

Deranged drivel from pointless pundit once again shown to have no basis in reality.

Next /. story: Dvorak unable to find posterior with both hands, proclaims demise of buttocks as we know them.

Next /. retraction: Arse in previous Dvorak stories positively identified, proven to exist. (Which, of course, is not to say that the disappearance of arses won't happen ... just that it hasn't happened yet.)

Re:Credulousness Abounds

[AndroidCat]

You know what they say about Opera: It ain't over until Steve Ballmer sings.

Amazing.....

[ericdano]

Amazing. Slashdot actually has a phone? And they were able to dial it and talk to a person to verify an "article" here? Wow. Hell must be really cold right now.