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Opera files antitrust complaint with the EU

I briefly read about this last night [half asleep] from the opera feed and when I saw it been mentioned on the WSG list this morning I went back to it to read it properly, and awake. Opera filed a complaint yesterday “on behalf of the consumers” “aimed at giving consumers a genuine choice of Web browsers”.

According to their press release “Opera requests the Commission to implement two remedies to Microsoft’s abusive actions. First, it requests the Commission to obligate Microsoft to unbundle Internet Explorer from Windows and/or carry alternative browsers pre-installed on the desktop. Second, it asks the European Commission to require Microsoft to follow fundamental and open Web standards accepted by the Web-authoring communities.“

Read the full press release here. According to David Storey, from Opera Software from an email he sent to the WSG list this case is not about money but about getting Microsoft to follow accepted web standards more closely.

I am interested to see what the outcome will be from this motion. I will be following it closely. While it will set up some wheels in motion will it actually have a real tangible result for users and developers?