Opera: Better, Faster, Stronger Browser?, Feb 22, 2001

In a challenge to Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer and AOL Time Warner Inc.'s Netscape browser, Opera Software SA recently made its browser—Opera 5 beta 6 for Linux—available in an ad-sponsored (free) version.

Hewlett-Packard is considering dumping Microsoft and hopping into bed with Palm, the company's incoming Embedded and Personal Systems chief, Iain Morris, has admitted.

Palm's dominant marketshare has clearly got Morris thinking. And 23 years spent at Motorola, maker of the Palm platform's Dragonball processor, may well have influenced his decision too. That said, he's also wondering whether Linux might make a better alternative, so he's clearly not pro-Palm so much as anti-CE.

If the words didn't send a chill down the spine of every Microsoft shareholder, they should have. At a January investment conference, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer declared: "Linux is our enemy No. 1." A few weeks later, James Allchin, who oversaw the rollout of Microsoft's Windows 2000 software, went so far as to call Linux "a threat to the American way

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