Comments on: Opera Working on Windows 7 Features Support

By: J

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 03:05:40 +0000

Flop to me is IE8, which is made for Windoze, which runs slowly on the very OS it was created for…

What use is arguing over whether Opera has problems with this site or that site, or doesn’t “integrate” well into an OS, when IE (all versions) run at most 75% speed of Opera and crashes about 10x as much?

By: nobody

nobody — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 06:00:12 +0000

they are either too stupid to realise that such stuff IS important – like taking care for what their users need and require (or what product image is). industry standard is: integrate seamlesly, period.

or too stupid to do it.

either way, opera is lacking something. browser claiming to be cutting edge that cannot integrate properly with operating system other than XP (ask linux and MacOS users about integration) doesnt look very credible.

please, no ‘but there is big picture to consider’. if opera is profitble, then it schould hire more engineers to solve such issues. and if they are at it – do something with dragonfly, that is apparently dead.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:28:11 +0000

“…or opera cant do it properly”
Do you think that the coders for Opera Software are stupid? Is anyone that enters that building automatically stupid? They build many amazing things, do you think it would be just beyond their skills to make jump-list support?

By: nobody

nobody — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:11:21 +0000

expected MS sell values should mean absolutely nothing for opera. for opera users/customesr what matters is that ‘flop’ is installed on one of each four/five computers out there.

using expected vista sales as an excuse not to support it is STUPID

vista has 20-25% marketshare, is ignored by opera (or opera cant do it properly). these are facts. explaining this behaviour in a way: “we are not going to support it because this system was suposed to sell better”

lol

By: Grrblt

Grrblt — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:44:37 +0000

Flop or no flop is largely determined by real vs expected market share, not absolute market share. A product that sells 100 million copies when you expect it to sell 300 million is pretty much a flop. A product that sells 10k copies when you expect it to sell 1k copies is a huge success.

By: nobody

nobody — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:02:44 +0000

vista a flop? what is your definition of a flop? 20-25% marketshare? if so, tell me what opera is with its 1-3%.. a megaflop?

like it or not, vista is second most popular system now, and for many years will be popular, esp. on home desktops (xp is mainly corporate teritory now)

ignoring it for 2 or 3 years is rather odd and suicidal move on opera’ side, but i got used to opera loosing touch with its customers pursuing goals that couldnt mater less to everyone else

is opera able to fully integrate as default browser in vista? because when i last tried to do it, it wasnt possible (ver 9.6)

By: Washout

Washout — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:17:25 +0000

There was no point in Opera doing anything about Vista since Vista was a flop. Windows 7, on the other hand…

By: nobody

nobody — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 09:41:04 +0000

“Who cares about Vista integration? Vista was a flop.”

maybe tens (or 100s?) of milions of vista users, who get the impression that opera isnt polished and full product if it cannot integrate with 2nd most popular operating system of the world..

you know, this kind of things count and has large impact on overal image of the product/company.

opera couldnt make use of vista file open/save dialog for 2 years, this looks like arrogance mixed with incompetence in user experience department.

By: Tsssk

Tsssk — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:41:17 +0000

Who cares about Vista integration? Vista was a flop.

Now Windows 7 actually seems like it’s taking off. Makes more sense to support that.

By: cousin333

cousin333 — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:04:20 +0000

… nobody speaks about this. :P