Should Microsoft buy Opera?
Last week I reported on rumors that Google might be buying
Opera. Those rumors have yet to pan out, but John C. Dvorak has some interesting ideas of his own about Opera's
destiny. He says that Microsoft
ought to buy Opera and ditch Internet Explorer, and I've got to say, despite being John C. Dvorak, he's got a point.
Opera, as he points out, is already very standards-complaint which puts it in a much better position among web
developers (who will take a very, very long time to warm back up to even a 100% standards-compliant IE), already runs
on all major platforms, and has long had all sorts of great features that IE is struggling to duplicate. He also points
out that Microsoft is currently carrying an immense licensing burden with Internet Explorer which would be eliminated if
they owned all of their own source code. Microsoft could buy Opera for about $400 million, Dvorak says, and though I
think it would be a great move on their part (though perhaps not good for consumers) and I'm sure the idea has been
floated around more than one Redmond conference room, I think Microsoft has put too much money and pride into IE7 at
this point to make that kind of switch.[Via Slashdot]
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Mike said 6:52AM on 12-23-2005
Why? Because IE can WYSIWYG edit HTML, I don't think Opera can. IE is a COM control that is used (embedded) in other applications, Opera isn't.
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