Gotta go to the EU, they are into over regulation, so Opera stands a chance. But um, this exact case was already done. Way to be a decade behind the times Opera, no wonder so few people use this alternative browser. It has nothing to do MSFT, everyone I know has tried alternative browsers at something, but the other alternatives are just better than the Opera choice.

You may be right guest, but I do agree with them that Microsoft's lack of full & correct support for standards (and making their own 'standards') vastly complicates development for the web thus reducing innovation. Whether that's an antritrust argument or not, I don't know, but it's certainly a highly annoying fact.

As a web designer & developer, my creativity has been pounded down over the years due to the fact that IE has so many CSS quirks it'll make your head spin. Sometimes I ask myself why I'm even coding with CSS and not with tables any more because it's so frustrating to support IE.

So wake up MS.... support those standards... or at least closer than what you have now. I'm sure when you do, a few of my friends will stop creating ms_sucks.css files to support your browser.

I too am a web dev, and I have to agree that browser support is the biggest pain in the butt. Not having standard browser interface is annoying, but it's not like IE is the only culprit though. I can't count the number of lines of code I've written specifically to deal with FF. When Safari came out on Windows I asked my boss if we were going to support it, he looked at me and literally laughed. He's got a point about the usage, and we don't really even bother with Safari on Mac that much either, and in my limited experience with it I've found it to possibly be more quirky the IE. I already have to login to three different machines to check for browser support across 3 OS's, not sure I would want add another iteration of browser checks anyways. But not conforming to every web standard perfectly is not an antitrust issue, there isn't a single browser that has ever done it.