Opera and eBay: together at last

What, weren't you waiting for it? You weren't? Oh. Well, that's okay. I wasn't, either.

Just a quickie update. Found this at, yes, The Register. Yummy, Opera's increasing its distribution by joining up with content providers, this time eBay.de.

I've been a fan of the Opera browser ever since it was first introduced to me like six years ago by a very technologically forward friend of mine (thanks, Thomas!). Now, I have both Firefox and Opera installed on every machine I use. (This is despite the fact that when Firefox first came out, I got very annoyed with it because it was (1) huge; (2) didn't work out of the "box" and crashed my machine during installation; (3) boldly and arrogantly claimed tabbed browsing was a new thing; (4) lacked mouse gestures...I could go on, but I won't. I'm over it. Really, I am. .. So over it.) Anyway, when OperaMini first started to show up on mobiles, I became very happy because I think it's an awesome product. I hope Opera Mini eBay does well because I want Opera to do well, although I think that the co-branding is rather cheesy. What they should do, or at least what I hope they'll do, is bundle the additions they're building into OperaeBay into a newer release of Mini and have it become the new mobile browsing standard.

On a side note, I will review the Nokia 770 soon (the browser loaded on that is also provided by Opera).

On another side note, find ComputerWorld's review and tour of Windows Vista (Beta2) here. To save you the suspense (and maybe whet your appetite), here's a tasty nugget:

"Where does Windows Vista fit among many of the PC-based operating systems of today and the last couple of decades? With Beta 2 running on multiple test units, I feel comfortable predicting that Windows Vista will not outpace Mac OS X Tiger for overall quality and usability. It's hard to beat Apple's top-notch GUI design grafted onto an implementation of Unix variant BSD. Mac OS X has excellent reliability, security and usability. That isn't to say that the user interface wouldn't gain if Apple adopted some other best ideas of the day, but Apple has the best operating system this year, last year and next year. It'll be interesting to see what the company delivers in its 10.5 Leopard version of Mac OS X."

Yummy.