I hardly think incompetence is the cause of this issue.
What it is is a time-honoredMicrosoft tactic to diminish consumers' opinion of competing products.
There's a new browser war being fought, only this time, the battleground is the mobile market, where the biggest threat to IE arguably comes from Opera, and it's very much in Redmond's interest to make people think Opera's a crappy browser that doesn't display sites correctly.
As to the pettiness of Opera's response, I think it's a clever move. It's irreverent, it makes a pop-cultural reference, and it'll reveal Microsoftian assholishness to a bigger audience than the more reasonable explanation can.
There are indeed games that come from a decidedly non-NATO perspective. A few years ago, in Singapore, in one of the many boutiques that sell software at surprisingly affordable prices, I saw a wargame that had you defending China from the American aggressors. Unfortunately, being thoroughly illiterate in Chinese, I can't google up a link. But there is this one from Argentina, in which you're trying to liberate the Falkland Islands (Malvinas) from the British.
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What it is is a time-honored Microsoft tactic to diminish consumers' opinion of competing products. There's a new browser war being fought, only this time, the battleground is the mobile market, where the biggest threat to IE arguably comes from Opera, and it's very much in Redmond's interest to make people think Opera's a crappy browser that doesn't display sites correctly.
As to the pettiness of Opera's response, I think it's a clever move. It's irreverent, it makes a pop-cultural reference, and it'll reveal Microsoftian assholishness to a bigger audience than the more reasonable explanation can.
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There are indeed games that come from a decidedly non-NATO perspective. A few years ago, in Singapore, in one of the many boutiques that sell software at surprisingly affordable prices, I saw a wargame that had you defending China from the American aggressors. Unfortunately, being thoroughly illiterate in Chinese, I can't google up a link. But there is this one from Argentina, in which you're trying to liberate the Falkland Islands (Malvinas) from the British.
(cf. Microsoft.)
Was it this article? Indeed -- that was a great read.