That's enough. Down with Opera!
Monday, 15. June 2009, 22:45:49
... is the title of a web log advocating the mass deletion of the Opera browser from users computers.
Put simply, the man is a loon. A fruit cake, a delusional wombat whose arguments hold less water than a very small bucket with a very large hole.
His argument has as it's central premise that Microsoft is the victim of an unfair, un-just and irrational attack and that the act of not offering choices, restricting competition and charging far too much for substandard bloatware is something Microsoft should be proud of. As I said, the man is a loon.
A further read through the inconsequential witterings of this half baked flap jack does suggest some understanding for the absurdities he propagates. He is an ardent Redmond-phile, a lover of all things Gatesy and firmly believes that, for example, MS Office is a truly outstanding piece of software, well worth the near £600 they want for it. A bargain at twice the price, surely ?
A couple of quotations from our colonial colleague.
"Many have been saying that Microsoft has been taking advantage of its dominance of the market by bundling IE with Windows and that they are forcing it on customers. I do not see how that is true in any way. Nothing has changed in the last 15 years. Internet Explorer has been an integral and key feature of Windows ever since Windows 95, before Microsoft "dominated" the market. It's not like Microsoft only recently started bundling IE with Windows, it has been there all along."
and
""But all Opera wants is a ballot screen, what's so wrong with that?" The idea of having a ballot screen as a whole is a ridiculous idea. The entire purpose of this ballot screen would be to promote competing products within Windows. Hello!!! Do I really need to explain to you how ridiculous that is?"
Well actually, yes you do need to explain it, as for any user of Windows will tell you, the lack of choice in the OS market when buying hardware, i.e. a computer, is staggering. There is none. The reason there is no Netscape any longer is that MS squeezed them out by bundling IE and then by making it exceptionally difficult to install anything else.
Opera should be applauded for their stance. It is both laudable and desirable.
And of course, the next logical step would be allow hardware vendors to put any OS on the hardware that the user wanted, not what Microsoft wants.
Put simply, the man is a loon. A fruit cake, a delusional wombat whose arguments hold less water than a very small bucket with a very large hole.
His argument has as it's central premise that Microsoft is the victim of an unfair, un-just and irrational attack and that the act of not offering choices, restricting competition and charging far too much for substandard bloatware is something Microsoft should be proud of. As I said, the man is a loon.
A further read through the inconsequential witterings of this half baked flap jack does suggest some understanding for the absurdities he propagates. He is an ardent Redmond-phile, a lover of all things Gatesy and firmly believes that, for example, MS Office is a truly outstanding piece of software, well worth the near £600 they want for it. A bargain at twice the price, surely ?
A couple of quotations from our colonial colleague.
"Many have been saying that Microsoft has been taking advantage of its dominance of the market by bundling IE with Windows and that they are forcing it on customers. I do not see how that is true in any way. Nothing has changed in the last 15 years. Internet Explorer has been an integral and key feature of Windows ever since Windows 95, before Microsoft "dominated" the market. It's not like Microsoft only recently started bundling IE with Windows, it has been there all along."
and
""But all Opera wants is a ballot screen, what's so wrong with that?" The idea of having a ballot screen as a whole is a ridiculous idea. The entire purpose of this ballot screen would be to promote competing products within Windows. Hello!!! Do I really need to explain to you how ridiculous that is?"
Well actually, yes you do need to explain it, as for any user of Windows will tell you, the lack of choice in the OS market when buying hardware, i.e. a computer, is staggering. There is none. The reason there is no Netscape any longer is that MS squeezed them out by bundling IE and then by making it exceptionally difficult to install anything else.
Opera should be applauded for their stance. It is both laudable and desirable.
And of course, the next logical step would be allow hardware vendors to put any OS on the hardware that the user wanted, not what Microsoft wants.
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