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Opera Sees "Dramatic" Rise From Microsoft's Ballot

Posted by kdawson on from the fat-lady-warming-up dept.

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. an anti-swpat company doing well by H4x0r+Jim+Duggan · · Score: 5, Informative

    Opera Software did great work lobbying against software patents in the campaigns on the EU software patents directive. Thanks Opera!.

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  2. Re:Correlation/causation by mdwh2 · · Score: 5, Informative

    was also appalled that it wasn't free; they wanted me to pay for it!

    Note that Opera has been completely free for years (since 2005). (And even before that, long before Firefox existed, you had the option of paying or a small ad.) I'm not sure why the idea of commercial sortware is "appalling" - I mean, you're running this on Windows!

    I'd certainly recommend trying it again - Opera has been continually improved, and it's not really fair to judge it today based on a five year old version. (Also it's unclear whether the webpage problems were due to bugs/limitations in Opera, or because of poorly written webpages that are only written for IE and Firefox.)