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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. MS is only sort of winning by log1385 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    MS is winning the browser war only because there are so many people who are don't know or don't care that there are better browsers out there. Almost every one of my tech-savvy friends uses Firefox or some other alternative browser (right now I'm using Opera). If it weren't for all of the casual internet users who don't know any better than to use IE, Firefox and Opera would represent a much greater percentage of users.

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  2. Acid2 by Lacrymology · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Well, Firefox 2.0.0.11 doesn't pass Acid2 either....