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Opera Tells EU That Microsoft's IE Hurts the Web

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the ow-right-in-my-infrastructure dept.

kastababy writes "In yet another instance of up-and-coming browser developers fighting back against the Microsoft behemoth, the makers of Opera have filed a complaint with the European Union against Microsoft. In their complaint, they allege that IE's 77% market share abuses its dominant position by tying IE to Windows and its refusal to accept Web standards, causing significant interoperability issues. The complaint also requests that the EU's Antitrust Division force Microsoft to separate IE from Windows and accept several different standards, thereby resolving major interoperability issues and providing consumers more choice in the browser market." Update: 12/14 19:47 GMT by Z : We also discussed this yesterday.

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  1. EU: hard of hearing by dotpavan · · Score: 4, Funny

    EU seems to show signs of hard of hearing or is Zonk having hard of seeing?

  2. Re:Dupe? by IdahoEv · · Score: 5, Funny

    Didn't we see this yesterday here???

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  3. Re:Dupe? by painandgreed · · Score: 4, Funny

    You must be new here.

    Not new enough apparently.

  4. Re:about time by dotancohen · · Score: 5, Funny

    Fuck SVG. I'd like to see IE support HTML.

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