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Opera Files EU Complaint Against Microsoft
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?
Vista won't even allow you to choose alternative browsers as the default. Even with Firefox installed, and you choose IE to not be the default browser, Vista still uses IE for all web access.
Its like Microsoft think they're so big they can just ignore the legal rulings from all the cases they've already lost about this. Every time a new version of windows comes out its worse than before.
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Heh - if they somehow force MS to make IE standards compliant, then that also means that MS can sue the bejeebus out of all the other browser manufacturers when their browser has an issue with some standard...they all have issues.
Basically Opera is suing to try and get some money, simply because their browser, for all that it is, costs $40 to buy, when IE and FireFox are free (IE technically since it comes with Windows).
Fuck the EU. MS should pull all their licenses from every EU country, then force the EU to help them sue those that don't relinquish their licenses. Let's see how functional the EU is after that.
But also require Apple to unbundle Safari from MacOSX and Redhat to unbundle Firefox from Fedora (I don't think Opera would mind either development at all). Once upon a time Microsoft killed the market for alternative commercial browsers by bundling free IE. But times have changed. These days a browser is a requirement rather than an optional add on. Unbundling it would mean that users will not be able to use their newly installed operating system at all, even to find out where to buy/download a browser.
However, OEMs should be permitted to bundle an alternative browser and de-emphasize IE by removing it from Start menu.
I've tried Opera several times. It barely works with any Web site.
This is just a lame attempt to make their terrible browser more popular.
I'm sorry the world is only big enough for two browsers and I have no love for Opera.
It doesn't help the EU anti-trust folks have a history of being an annoying self-rightous bunch of pricks.
If I were MS I would bundle firefox with windows and tell Opera to take a hike.