Interview with Opera CEO · 20 August 2007, 05:19 by trickykid
The Register has a really good article/interview with Opera’s CEO Jon von Tetzchner, the co-developer of the original Opera browser and who also took the company public back in 2004.
I’ve now been a longtime fan of Opera for over a year now. I used it seldomly previously, mostly a Firefox and Mozilla user before I used Opera as my main browser, but since 9.0 and of course the browser became fully free, it’s been nothing but Opera since then.
I don’t personally use the built-in mail client that Opera offers but I found this quote quite funny and so true from the CEO.
“The choice of mail applications is poor on Windows. And Outlook is the most targeted for security. At Opera you’re banned from using Outlook. We don’t mind people trying things, but one of our sales guys got a virus and started spamming customers. That’s stupid. We can’t have that.”
I only wish I worked at some place that banned Outlook from being used. We just switched from Thunderbird to Outlook cause our parent company wants everyone on Exchange. Number of times our mail server went down and was unavailable before the switch, zero. In the past 3 months, the number of times Exchange has gone down since the switch, 3 times. One of those times email was not working for 4 hours.
Ok, no more drifting off topic, go read the article here. And download Opera for crying out loud. If your own website doesn’t load correctly in Opera, then most likely you’re dealing with some shitty code writing that don’t stick to standards. I’m almost to the point where if a website doesn’t render correctly in Opera, then I just don’t go back to that site.
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