Microsoft to Buy Opera

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If this is true, then it has nothing to do with opera mobile or IE7, nor is opera any threat to IE's market share. This has everything to do with google. MS would buy it just so google can't have opera. :p

Hehe, although I think the bang from Google's billion dollar affair with AOL to stop MS banged louder in that case ;) AOL may not be a too great company per se though, but I don't doubt they have huge resources, and Google may be using them better, heh

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Hehe, although I think the bang from Google's billion dollar affair with AOL to stop MS banged louder in that case

I'd look into that AOL and Google deal a little closer. Google is pretty much screwed by doing that. Google will now have flashy AOL ads all over the site which is known for being nice and clean. That's one reason why soo many people like Google. People are going to stop using Google when that happens.

Microsoft backing out in the last minutes and Google getting it could all have been planned by Microsoft so that Google screwed themselves over. All just my opinion on that of course.

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I smell BS. If MS did this, it would be as good as holding up their hands and admitting they couldn't engineer a decent browser themselves.

I completely disagree with that... it tells Mozilla, in my opinion, that they're serious about making IE better and stopping them browser share at 7.55%.

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I smell BS. If MS did this, it would be as good as holding up their hands and admitting they couldn't engineer a decent browser themselves.

They did engineer a good browser, but they stopped developing it back in 2001, if they had continued to work on it they would not be in this mess.

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i kind of believe it, but only the part that it states that the major reason for purchasing the rights to Opera is because of the handheld market. If MS was to purchase opera i think they will gut the pc product and integreate its features to ie7 and obviously rebrand the hanheld product to stay the same way but with a MS look. I hope they didnt buy it tho, i just love my Opera, imo, there is nothing else like it, not firefox not IE6, not Maxthon. Opera is, for me, the best browser out right now...

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