

Opera sets its sights on Microsoft









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RE: Tired of complaints.
By Micronite on 12/13/2007 3:42:59 PM , Rating: 5
It's brilliant, actually...

1) Get the EU to force Microsoft to distribute your browser with every copy of Windows.

2) Charge Microsoft royalties for every copy of Opera distributed with Windows.

3) Buy a summer home in Tuscany.

I'll be over here writing my own notepad app. This could get lucrative.

RE: Tired of complaints.
By dnd728 on 12/13/2007 4:23:01 PM , Rating: 2
MS should just sell windows without IE in Europe. Then they can go download Opera.

Or better, sell it with a million crapware from the internet to cover all corners.

RE: Tired of complaints.
By FITCamaro on 12/13/2007 4:26:58 PM , Rating: 2
They already do offer Windows XP without IE and Windows Media player in Europe. It's just not any cheaper than the version with it.

RE: Tired of complaints.
By Mitch101 on 12/13/2007 5:07:32 PM , Rating: 2
The problem is that stupid people having problems with the Opera browser will call Microsoft for support. But it came with my operating system.

I would agree Windows without IE is a good solution but you should never be forced to carry a competitors product in your own distribution. How would you download a Browser without one though. I can only laugh at the irony.

Its obvious that the EU commission has a dislike for Microsoft. If this passes I hope Microsoft charges even more for the software.

EU Govt sticks Microsoft and Microsoft sticks the users with the bill.

You think you will win if MS is forced to include Opera I'm betting even if Opera wins the consumer loses.

RE: Tired of complaints.
By Oregonian2 on 12/13/2007 9:20:31 PM , Rating: 2
As mentioned in the news report I read about it earlier, the problem is the same as the media player, so the solution, if anything, would likely be the same as well. The version of XP they sell in Europe w/o media player can be sold w/o IE as well. And it'll continue not to sell.

Always thought they'd discount it proportionally to the byte-count of the entire distribution. Should knock off at least half a Euro for the IE/MP free version.

Personally I still don't understand the problem. Firefox (etc) is what I use by choice w/o problem of IE being there. Likewise, other media players work fine too.

RE: Tired of complaints.
By Eurasianman on 12/13/2007 5:12:57 PM , Rating: 2

And how do they go about downloading their internet browser if there isn't one in the first place?

Yea, just type in apt-get... oh wait, you can't do that in Windows -.-

RE: Tired of complaints.
By TomZ on 12/13/2007 5:32:40 PM , Rating: 1

That wouldn't be Microsoft's problem, now would it?

It would actually be pretty stupid for Opera to ask Microsoft to remove IE, since as you point out, it would make it even more difficult for users to download and install Opera.

But to answer your question more directly, Microsoft could choose to include within Windows a tool or tools that have the ability to, when run, download and install Opera and/or other browsers. This is actually quite easy to do.

RE: Tired of complaints.
By schkrat on 12/14/2007 2:58:33 AM , Rating: 2
Note! Windows explorer is also capable of web browsing.

RE: Tired of complaints.
By tomal on 12/14/2007 8:09:20 AM , Rating: 2
windows explorer uses IE to render the pages. That is why you cannot fully uninstall IE from ur system. Many other applications also use IE to render webpages within themselves.

RE: Tired of complaints.
By Polynikes on 12/14/2007 12:47:58 PM , Rating: 2
That would be a pain in the ass, you'd have to go out of your way to download your browser of choice on another box, instead of quickly firing up IE and downloading it directly to your machine, which would be much faster.

Do I need or use IE? Hell no, but what happened to a free market? This would be akin to a car manufacturer putting their own brand of tires on a car they sell, and having a competitor whine about it. They're well within their rights to offer whatever accessories they want to package with their product.

RE: Tired of complaints.
By qwertyz on 12/14/2007 7:52:06 AM , Rating: 1
since Law and Justice are becoming more and more retarded and people are becoming more money greedy there's no wonder such stupid lawsuits take place.

This Opera lawsuit is more than stupid.
Now just imagine a similar case with a retarded justice like the one of these days when Antivirus companies sue Microsoft over it's secure OS and force them to infect every Windows version with dozens of viruses right out the box so the user should be forced to buy an antivirus to clean it from the factory infected OS.
Now how stupid this scenario sounds ? this is ultra mega incredibly stupid but it doesn't differ to much from what Opera asks right now from Microsoft.

So don't be to surprised to see lawsuits like these because as seen the Justice is becoming the most retarded thing in the world.

With a justice like this the present and future is start to looking more and more RETARDED.
And did you think the future will look rosy THINK AGAIN


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