It's great to see that others share my opinion about IE - especially if it isn't just venting. Bundling IE to Windows and sabotaging web standards as well does indeed inflict massive damages on the industry.
While it's true that there is a benefit (more working hours) for web designers; that money could be better spent elsewhere. E.g. on usability or accessibility improvements. (See Parable of the broken window on Wikipedia for details.)
We're requesting the European commission to make Microsoft respect standards. They should support standards fully in Internet Explorer. That's not the case today.
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Web standards are very important. In order for pages to work across browsers - across platforms - standards must be followed. And today Microsoft is sabotaging the standards. They are not following them. They don't really want the standards to succeed. And that's what we want to change. - Håkon Wium Lie, Opera CTO
It's so awesome I almost shed a tear. ;)
The official stuff:
Press release
Opera CTO Håkon Wium Lie comments on Opera's antitrust action (video)
(click the image on that site to download the smaller ~20mb video)
Opera files complaint — an open letter to the Web community
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