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    "title": "Opera sings a tragic aria about Microsoft and “Interoperability”",
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    "datePublished": "2005-02-12",
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# Opera sings a tragic aria about Microsoft and “Interoperability”

Hakon Lie, CEO of [Opera](http://www.opera.com/), nails Bill Gates to the wall using his own claim to support interoperability. [[here](http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/02/11/hakon_on_ms_interroperability/)]
This is a brilliant rant on Microsoft and they're lack of support (or half-baked attempt to support) Web Standards initiatives. MSIE is a six-year old engine, groaning under the weight of it's own bloated code. Lightweight "skin" browsers using the MSIE engine can't, and shouldn't, save it.
I can't wait to see MSIE 7, because no one is going to wait for Longhorn. By Longhorn MSIE's market-share will have dropped below 50%.
Collaborate or die.

Hakon Lie Apparently said the same thing directly to Scoble. [[here](http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2005/02/12.html#a9395)]
A more complete commentary [here](http://www.xsltblog.com/general/archives/2005/02/comments_on_the.html).