Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 13th Apr 2007 11:19 UTC
"It seems unfortunate if we do this work and get our partners to do the work and the result is that Linux works great without having to do the work" said Bill Gates in 1999 (pdf). While we don't know if he actually managed to do just that (creating problems to other OSes to work well with ACPI), but if he did, it is a good explanation why ACPI has been flaky on the majority of x86 computers with anything else other than Windows (the older, APM standard, seemed more compatible with alternative OSes).
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2005-12-15
Calling IE inferior is a pretty bold statement. If it's your personal opinion, that's fine but otherwise, then it really doesn't hold any weight.
Have a look at the statistics and you'll see that Opera goes as low as 0.2% usage. Month in, month out, Opera isn't relevant.
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp
Firefox on the other hand is steadily growing (and deservedly so). Opera remains around 1.5% for at least the last year. Less even further back.
This site shows a similar snapshot of Opera popularity:
http://www.upsdell.com/BrowserNews/stat.htm
If it were superior, people would use it over IE - especially given the obvious security problems alone.
Edited 2007-04-13 11:48