Ivan Soto

Today I was reading the comments on the article "Opera: Apple, Ubuntu should include browser ballout screen too" and like always, everyone was commenting about how unsuccessful Opera is, hence the article. It really is and anyone that works on web development will know how good Opera is, but at the same time knows why it's not their main browser.

I don't want to find _the_ cause why Opera fails to get a piece of market share, I just want to give my personal opinion on why Opera and any other software that doesn't use native controls fails to impress me.

I've always been one of those few persons who defend Windows Vista saying that it does have a bunch of very cool features and improvement over Windows XP. Even when you lose performance in general with Vista, new users will like it since it feels more secure and easy to use. Since the website launched (when I was a Windows user) I've been reading Paul Thurrott's winsupersite.com looking for reviews and news from mostly Windows products (I don't really care about the rest in the site).