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With all of Microsoft’s riches and power behind it, Internet Explorer has dominated the Web browser market since Netscape’s defeat in the late 1990s. But as CTO of Opera Software, Wium Lie’s job is to figure out how to incorporate the best technology possible in his company’s software–and in this, he’s stolen a beat on Opera’s much bigger rival.

For much of the last year, Microsoft has banged the drum for the arrival of Internet Explorer 7. In the meantime, Wium Lie says Opera has been able to move faster than Microsoft on sundry browser issues such as tabbed browsing, speed, privacy and security.

At last count, Opera had only about 1 percent of the Web browser market, so Microsoft’s not exactly quaking in its boots. Still, Opera executives say the future will be increasingly dominated by browsers found in non-PC devices, especially on the proliferating number of handheld gadgets combining computing power with telephony. For Opera, smaller really is better | Newsmakers | CNET News.com