![]() ![]() Despite their talent, however, they refuse to support Web standards correctly. "Microsoft often participates in creating Web standards, promoting them and even promising to implement them. "We believe that Microsoft has harmed Web standards by refusing to support them," Lie said. Opera's chief technology officer, Hakon Wium Lie, however, was more specific in an open letter he posted to his blog Thursday. "Instead of innovating, Microsoft has locked consumers to its own browser," the company said in its statement. Opera didn't use that specific argument in its complaint, but it hinted that IE's lack of support for Web standards jeopardized its own browser. "The threat that these technologies pose to Microsoft's Windows monopoly through their ability to erode the applications barrier to entry depends, in large part, on Microsoft's willingness to maintain IE as a standards-compliant browser and to continue supporting cross-platform implementations." For the vast majority of PCs, that browser is IE," the California-led group of states said in October. "Many of the 'new' or 'emerging' technologies cited by Microsoft's experts are dependent on a 'standards-based' browser to access computing functionality delivered by servers. According to the latest figures, IE owned just over 77% of the global browser market in November. District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly that Microsoft's dominance meant it could use IE to stop or hinder Web-based threats to Windows. Then, six states - California, Connecticut, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota and Massachusetts - as well as the District of Columbia told U.S. states argued along similar lines back in October when they asked that judicial oversight of Microsoft's behavior be extended until 2012. "Microsoft's unilateral control over standards in some markets creates a de facto standard that is more costly to support, harder to maintain and technologically inferior, and that can even expose users to security risks." "Second, it asks the European Commission to require Microsoft to follow fundamental and open Web standards accepted by the Web-authoring communities," Opera said.
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