I thought this had all been said and done before, but it seems that Opera Software has been taking their turn to bleat about Microsoft’s Internet Explorer making it ‘too hard’ for rivals!
Yes, the fact that Microsoft puts it’s browser into the Windows operating system is apparently flouting web standards and makes it harder for browsers to become inter-operable.
In a statement Opera said it wanted the Commission to make Microsoft separate IE from Windows and pre-install alternative browsers on new PCs.
Now I am not Microsoft fan, but I don’t see this as a problem – rather it is the other way round surely. With 80% of the worlds computers using Internet Explorer surely that makes it easier to know who you have to either compete with or inter-operate with? If you buy a Windows PC you get IE. If you but an Apple computer you get Safari. You can run Safari on Windows, you can also run Firefox on Windows and OS X so what is the problem. Any serious computer user is going to run more than one browser anyway (personally I have three open all the time) so what is wrong with some variety and competition?
Via [BBC]
I could understand using more than one browser at the same time if you were a web developer, or you occasionally needed something to be rendered a certain way.