Monopoly

You surely know already that I’m a Mozilla Browser fan. I used IE for years because it was fast and everyone used it, and there was no real alternative.

But then I tried Mozilla, an Open-Source browser. It is faster, more stable and more standards-compliant than IE and it isn't a product of Microsoft. It was easy to upgrade from IE to Mozilla, and now it is the browser of my choice.

Some days ago, I found a press release from Opera, that explains why the latest version of their browser has problem with some MS pages: Opera 7 browsers do not receive the same Web documents as MS browsers, they receive documents that explicitly instruct to move content off the side of its container, thus creating the impression that there is something wrong with Opera 7.

Why doesn't MSN work with Opera

Isn't it dangerous that all browsers on Earth are Microsoft's? That does indeed give them too much power.

That's for me an other reason to keep using a browser other than IE. My concept of ethics is, as far as I can see (from what MS does), pretty different from Microsoft's.

If I don't mind buying toys made by child workforce, why should I buy/use software from a firm that uses such abusive practices to shut out competing products?

Gik.-