In what is becoming an increasingly common move, Microsoft this week caved to more demands from browser maker Opera by agreeing to further change the proposed browser-ballot screen it will provide in European versions of Windows. Now, the order in which the alternative browsers are presented will be randomized so that the most popular browsers won't always be listed first.

This development provides Opera—which controlled just 1.5 percent of the web browser market in October, well behind all other browsers—with an artificially prominent spot on a list that, quite frankly, it shouldn't even be included in. But Opera, of course, was the company that first complained to the European Union (EU) about Microsoft's allegedly anti-competitive behavior, and Opera now is treated as an equal to Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla, companies that make browsers that are actually used by a measurably large audience.

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