Now that Microsoft has handed the Acid2 Browser check,
Windows 7 Ultimate Key, is Opera Software happy? If dropping its antitrust complaint filed last week using the European Commission may be the measure, the reply is no.I asked Opera regardless of whether Microsoft;s announcement on December 19 that an internal Online Explorer 8 create has handed the Acid2 check meant a alter in its complaint. Opera asked the European courts to require Microsoft to change its practice of bundling IE with Windows, too as to compel Microsoft to make IE comply with accepted Web standards.An Opera spokesman delivered the corporation;s response:“We congratulate Microsoft on the screenshots showing IE8 passing the ACID2 test. We appreciate the effort of Microsoft;s developers in this achievement.“We hope that IE8 passes the ACID2 test out of the box when it ships and we look forward to testing IE8 on each of the main Internet standards.“Our filing final week stirred many discussions on the value of Internet standards. We hope IE8;s passing of the ACID2 check signals a change in Microsoft;s heart and mind regarding their support of the requirements.”Microsoft, for its part, is saying that its decision to go public this week with plans to create IE 8 Acid2-compliant had nothing to do with all the timing of Opera;s filing. (I don;t buy that for a second, 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,
Office Enterprise 2007, Opera CTO Hakon Wium Lie said:“To help Microsoft and other browser makers support requirements correctly,
Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010, the Acid2 test was developed and published by the Internet Standards Group. When published, it exposed bugs in all browsers. The programmers of Safari,
Office 2007 Download, 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,
Windows 7 Pro, 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?