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Opera Files EU Complaint Against Microsoft

Posted by kdawson on from the reopening-the-browser-wars dept.

A number of readers have sent word about Opera Software ASA's antitrust complaint against Microsoft filed with the EU. Here is Opera's press release on the filing. The company wants the EU to "obligate Microsoft to unbundle Internet Explorer from Windows and/or carry alternative browsers pre-installed on the desktop" and to "require Microsoft to follow fundamental and open Web standards accepted by the Web-authoring communities." The latter request makes this a case to watch. Will the Commissioner take the Acid2 test using IE7?

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  1. Great plan by farlukar · · Score: 3, Funny

    Antitrust cases worked so well for getting WMP removed :)

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  2. Re:This is a great idea and all, but... by varmittang · · Score: 4, Funny

    How am I going to download an Internet browser if my crappy Microsoft Windows has no way of browsing the Internet? There, fixed that for you.

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  3. Re:I don't get it by plague3106 · · Score: 3, Funny

    First, most people won't know how to do that. Second, you're now locking out FTP clients by bundling one with the OS!!!! That's unfair competition to CuteFTP!