Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 19th Jan 2009 20:57 UTC
Last week, news got out that Microsoft had been charged with breaking competition laws by the European Commission. The EU stated that Microsoft has broken competition laws because it bundles its Internet Explorer browser with Windows, which gives the browser an unfair advantage over competing browsers such as Firefox and Opera. OSNews readers debated this topic lively, and it seems we can use this story to continue the discussion: Opera Software's CEO Jon von Tetzchner joined in on the fun.
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Member since:2005-07-13
did you read the statisics stuff that Opera released about useage of the web broswer? their are reasons that they choose not to do things about certain aspects and instead focus on other things. I can't find the link but if you followed the Opera blog's over teh last couple of years there are usage trends and the speach one is one of the least used feature (was in 8 anyways).
though i do feel for opera, so good and yet so underappreciated.
Member since:2005-11-13
I can't find the link but if you followed the Opera blog's over teh last couple of years there are usage trends and the speach one is one of the least used feature (was in 8 anyways).
Well, that's fine if they don't want to support the feature anymore and feel that it's not worth the resources it would take, but at LEAST come out and say so, and don't just leave the feature broken as it is and not acknowledge anyone that asks about it.
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2005-11-13
Hey Opera, stop acting like a whiny little bitch and try actually fixing (or at least ACKNOWLEDGING) bugs that users report to you:
http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=263311
Regardless of whether Microsoft is guilty of any wrong doing, even if Internet Explorer wasn't around, you would still be getting your ass handed to you by Firefox and Safari, so put that in your pipe and smoke it.
Edited 2009-01-19 22:32 UTC