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    • personal1985
      personal1985 last edited by

      Rumor has it Microsoft wants to buy Opera and finish it off for good. Usually the first thing Microsoft does is destroying a company so it can be bought for less much money. Google for Microsoft Touch of Death.

      Is this the reason Opera Mobile is getting behind more and more? So Microsoft can buy and kill Opera?

      This is not the first time Microsoft wants to destroy a browser company.

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      • leocg
        leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

        Originally posted by personal1:

        Is this the reason Opera Mobile is getting behind more and more? So Microsoft can buy and kill Opera?.

        What do you mean? Opera Mobile, for Android, just got an uodate, and it's not behind anything.

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        • linuxmint7
          linuxmint7 last edited by

          Source link ?, otherwise i call BS and FUD. Which this most probably is.

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          • personal1985
            personal1985 last edited by

            Originally posted by LinuxMint7:

            Source link ?, otherwise i call BS and FUD. Which this most probably is.

            Opera denies Microsoft takeover rumours | ZDNet
            http://www.zdnet.com/opera-denies-microsoft-takeover-rumours-3039243639/

            Facebook To Buy Opera? Maybe. Here's What We Hear.
            http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/05/25/facebook-to-acquire-browser-maker-opera-maybe-heres-what-we-know/#!tSmqo

            I can find many links but they end with buyout by proxy like Microsoft.
            Rumours surfaced on Friday morning that Microsoft is close to completing a takeover offer for the Norwegian browser vendor, having outbid Google.

            "Our phones have been ringing off the hook," said a spokesman for Opera. "But it's not true. We have not been bought, and we have not received any offers. It's just a rumour, like the Google rumour last week."

            If Microsoft were to buy Opera it would effectively reduce the battle for browsers on Windows PCs to two contenders: Microsoft and the Mozilla Foundation.

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            • linuxmint7
              linuxmint7 last edited by

              Have you read the date the initial post/topic/report (<-- Lol) was posted ?.

              December 23rd 2005, yes 2005!!!

              I hardly think there is much to be worried about, as it has clearly gone way past it's sell-by date.

              Move along, move along, nothing to see here.

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              • Deleted User
                Deleted User last edited by

                :faint: would someone please close this topic? Better yet, delete it.

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                • grzejnik32
                  grzejnik32 last edited by

                  opera don't sell yourself!

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                  • Deleted User
                    Deleted User last edited by

                    opera don't sell yourself!

                    Oh! Opera should not sell their products? What a nonsense.

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                    • Deleted User
                      Deleted User last edited by

                      :faint: would someone please close this topic? Better yet, delete it.

                      Better yet, add the year the message was posted at the end of the date. (It says 'January 29' but doesn't mention the year. So it's easy to think it was posted this year)

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                      • christoph142
                        christoph142 last edited by

                        it was posted this year... ^^

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                        • biggerabalone
                          biggerabalone last edited by

                          if you look at microsoft's share prices, you'd know they don't have the money to waste on such a silly business venture.

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