Let me say from the outset that I was not a fan of Opera Software’s antitrust sabre-rattling a few months back over Microsoft’s lack of standards compliancy with its browser. But Opera’s latest complaints about Internet Explorer (IE) 8 make Opera look even more like a company that’s gone off the deep end.
Hakon Lie, the Chief Technology Officer of Opera, airs some of his dissatisfaction with how the new beta of Microsoft’s IE 8 handles the breaking of Web pages . Lie complains that Microsoft has compatibility mode turned on by default for Intranet sites (not Internet ones, mind you). with IE 8 Beta 2 . And he really hates the breaking page icon that Microsoft displays next to the IE 8 address bar; he proposes the Acid-test smiley face instead.
From Opera’s e-mail to me on August 29:
IE 8 “breaks with Microsoft’s promise - made just six months ago - to support Web standards by default.
“At issue here is...
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A sucker for storage From: blogs.pressdemocrat.com Post Date: 2008-10-29 21:46:15
I am a chump.
After months of tediously shuffling around files, I’d had enough of the paltry 20 gigabyte hard drive that came with my Xbox 360.
At the time the 360 launched, 20 gigabytes seemed like a lot of memory. But with free demos that regularly exceed a gigabyte, dozens of "Rock Band" songs, free map packs for games like "Halo 3" and "Gears of War" and a quantity of save files befitting someone who writes about video games, I was locked in an endless, unfun minigam... more
It never seems to fail. Every year, one or two major games get leaked early via pirates and the industry sounds off alarm bells and talks up the staggering loses that piracy is causing.
The situation certainly doesn’t get helped by stories of idiotic employees stealing hundreds of copies of un-released games and being caught by police, especially when said thieves have reportedly already sold and undetermined number of games.
This all just fuels the argument for stronger DRM or new w... more
Norway-based browser-maker Opera Software (OPERA.OL) stock jumped 11% today after the company beat estimates for Q3 earnings.
Opera only commands 0.7% of the desktop browser market -- already trailing the much-newer Google (GOOG) Chrome -- which has 0.8%. But that’s not where the revenue comes from: Opera is reporting strong growth in license revenues for its Opera Mini mobile browser.
Bloomberg: Shares climbed as much as 1.9 kroner, or 11 percent, to 18.5 kroner, and were at 18.2 kr... more
Following a few weeks of silence, Opera Software’s desktop team has started to talk about new releases once more. Nothing about a fresh Opera 9 update but about Opera 10, codename Peregrine which is to come with the Presto 2.2 engine, new user-related features, performance improvements and more.
Those eager to get a glimpse of the upcoming browser won’t have to wait long as a first alpha version of Opera 10 is slated for release in the ’near future’. The alpha is fo... more
Perhaps the most famous photo of Microsoft’s early years is a portrait of Bill Gates, Paul Allen and nine employees looking very young and very ’70s in a shopping-mall portrait studio. With Gates preparing to leave daily life at the company, Microsoft recently reunited them for an updated photo. ... more
When you turn on a computer, it first uses some permanent memory called the BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) to get things started. The BIOS contains very elementary information about the memory, the drives, etc. Most of the time PC users don’t have to think about the BIOS but now and then you may want to access the settings for the BIOS. The procedure varies from one make of PC to another and can be frustrating. Fortunately, there is a site that explains the procedure for a va... more
Radio personality Dave Ross of KIRO-AM/710 in Seattle noticed yesterday’s post about Bill Gates’ January 2003 Windows rant and channeled the Microsoft chairman’s frustrations for a dramatic reading on air this morning. It adds an entirely new dimension to the e-mail. ... more
MarketWatch reports that Yahoo! CEO Jerry Yang revealed that Microsoft was looking for a 10 year deal with the company that would have made Yahoo!’s search business dependent on Microsoft. As an alternative, they had proposed buying Yahoo!’s searc... ... more
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