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Opera Sees "Dramatic" Rise From Microsoft's Ballot

TheReal_sabret00the notes a TechRadar piece reporting that Opera Software has seen a doubling from normal download numbers on average since Microsoft's browser-choice screen lit up in Europe. The UK saw an 85% increase and for other countries it was larger still: Poland 328%, Spain 215%, and Italy 202%. Hakon Wium Lie, CTO of Opera Software, said "A multitude of browsers will make the web more standardised and easier to browse."

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  1. Re:Woah by WrongSizeGlass · · Score: 2, Funny

    Spinal Tap will start streaming through all 11 copies of Opera simultaneously.

  2. Re:Woah by WrongSizeGlass · · Score: 4, Funny

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_rule

    Statistics can be misleading.

    Links can be misleading, too. That link had absolutely nothing to do with the Simpsons.

  3. Re:Correlation/causation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Perhaps if you stopped reading TFA's you'd be able to infer anything you'd like - just like the rest of us.

  4. Re:That's very nice Opera by residieu · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's a Big Red O! There's no stopping the Big Red O once it gets rolling. It'll roll right over your lowercase blue e. It'll roll right over your rat clinging to the blue egg. It won't even acknowledge Safari, because it doesn't remember what its icon is. Beware the Big Red O! It's the Future!

  5. Re:Wii has 64 MB of RAM by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I hear Lynx is pretty lightweight.

  6. Re:That's very nice Opera by Comboman · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's a compass. A typical icon to indicate "navigation"

    That would explain why I'm always pressing it on my iPhone and expecting to get the GPS app.

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  7. Re:Best thing about Opera? by meatron · · Score: 2, Funny

    rock-solid haha, just after I finished writing this, opera crashed :) still wouldn't change it for anything.