] Opera gets US$12.75 million settlement from Microsoft ] ] Last week Opera Software (makers of the Opera browser for ] Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X) announced they had entered ] into a settlement with a large company, but did not name ] the company provide details on what the settlement ] covered. Now, sources are reporting that Microsoft is the ] party behind the payout. Opera had threatened Microsoft ] with a lawsuit over incompatibilities between Opera 7 and ] Microsoft's MSN. ] The incompatibilities were allegedly due to a ] browser-specific style-sheet sent to surfers browsing the ] MSN website with Opera, which then caused MSN to render ] improperly on Opera 7. If Opera identified as a ] Mozilla-based browser, the pages would render just fine. ] ] Microsoft in 2003 admitted that it had taken steps to ] detect different types of browsers accessing MSN and sent ] different Web page layouts to different products. But the ] company said its efforts were aimed at promoting ] standards compliance rather than at hurting products that ] compete with its dominant Internet Explorer browser. ] Microsoft said it has since stopped the practice. Opera (web browser) gets US$12.75 million settlement from Microsoft |