[Bush2000]

Then why did they not target Mozilla, or Netscape? They (for whatever reason) picked out Opera.. If you can not see this is a totally unethical (and by the way they have been found guilty of using illegal tactics to push their software in the past) and probably illegal attach on a competitor. If you cant see this was unethical then I am sorry for you and perhaps I am not the one letting my 'loyalty' to a certain set of software cloud my judgment.

What is this "targeted" bullsh*t? How do you know they did this intentionally? Opera is a tiny blip in the browser market. It poses no threat to IE. Never ascribe to malice what can be explained by error.

[N3WBI3]

And yet a specific style sheet was put in for opera which broke the view. If opera used any other css (IE/NS/MOZ) or even the default sheet for a 'tiny blip in the browser market' it fully renderd all the content just fine.

So for some reason MS decided this 'tiny blip in the browser market' was important enough to create a specific sheet for? and this sheet just happened to be really broken (this shee would not render right under IE/NS/MZ or any other browser, so in creating this sheet did they not even test it in IE?

[antiRepublicrat]

It poses no threat to IE.

Actually, it does. Opera is growing rapidly in the browser market, while Microsoft considers Netscape/Mozilla dead. But what they really fear is that Opera gets credibility as a good browser because Opera is poised to be the browser of choice on handheld devices -- a market that Microsoft desperately wants.