Now that Microsoft has passed the Acid2 Browser check, is Opera Software program happy? If dropping its antitrust complaint filed final week with all the European Commission is the measure,
Windows 7 Product Key, the answer is no.I asked Opera whether or not Microsoft;s announcement on December 19 that an internal Net Explorer 8 construct has handed the Acid2 test meant a change in its complaint. Opera asked the European courts to need Microsoft to change its practice of bundling IE with Windows,
Office 2007 Download, also regarding compel Microsoft to make IE comply with accepted Internet standards.An Opera spokesman delivered the corporation;s response:“We congratulate Microsoft on the screenshots showing IE8 passing the ACID2 check. We appreciate the effort of Microsoft;s developers in this achievement.“We hope that IE8 passes the ACID2 check out of the box when it ships and we look forward to testing IE8 on all the main Web standards.“Our filing final week stirred many discussions on the value of Internet standards. We hope IE8;s passing of the ACID2 test signals a alter in Microsoft;s heart and mind regarding their support of the requirements.”Microsoft,
Windows 7 Home Premium, for its part, is saying that its decision to go public this week with plans to make IE 8 Acid2-compliant had nothing to do with all the timing of Opera;s filing. (I don;t buy that for a second,
Microsoft Office 2010 Product Key, but that;s what IE Development chief Dean Hachamovitch told me.)In a response to a blog post I did questioning the wisdom of Opera;s decision to seek court intervention to enforce IE standards-compliance, Opera CTO Hakon Wium Lie said:“To help Microsoft and other browser makers support requirements correctly, the Acid2 test was developed and published by the Web Requirements Group. When published, it exposed bugs in all browsers. The programmers of Safari,
Microsoft Office Professional 2010, Firefox and Opera got to work quickly and the latest versions of these browsers now pass the difficult check. Microsoft took a very different attitude and has not, seemingly, made any efforts to pass the check. This tells me we must do more than just ask them nicely.”So it looks like Opera;s antitrust complaint stays as is. What;s your take? Should Opera just focus on IE bundling and drop the standards piece of its complaint? Drop its complaint in its entirety? Or do you think Opera is right in staying the course?