Re: Opera Browser

From: Leythos (void_at_nowhere.com)
Date: 02/10/04 

Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2004 23:55:22 GMT

In article <c095ld$7o8$07$1@news.t-online.com>, 520001085531-0001@t-
online.de says...
> In Opera these threats are minimal as far as I could see it;
> I guess maybe 1% compared to Microsoft's IE.

These threats are minimal, only if you don't use the added functionality
that is provided with IE as a client for applications. Opera is not a
replacement for IE, but for people that only play on the web, it does
well most of the time.

> BTW, Opera is an example for a modern software: everything
> is flexible, resizeable, individually configurable, modular, ...
>
> And, I'm planning also to replace my Win2K with Linux.
> BTW, I'm "Microsoft Certified System Egineer" :-), so I
> really know of what I'm talking of... :-)

If you were a MCSE you would not be trolling like this. Each browser has
it's purpose, as does each OS. Some shops will want IE since it allows
perfect integration with OWA and other custom apps they've built on .Net
servers. Some shops don't care and have the staff to support mixed
platforms.

What people, and designers (even MCSE's) have to learn is that there is
no "one best" solution for every installation. Sometimes it's related to
ROI, sometimes it's related to comfort, sometimes it's related to
marketing hype. In a few cases, a OS and platform as selected based on
the actual customer needs an impact on the customer.

As an example, for businesses, I would never install Linux on the
desktop, but servers, most of them, could be Linux based.

For home users, the non-MCSE ones, I would never install Linux. Most
people, home users, are not technical enough to be productive with a
linux install, and most of them have already started on the MS platform.
For the technical home user I would suggest dual systems - one MS XP
Prof and one RH 9, to give them the best of both worlds.
  

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