Cha-Ching Opera hits up the Microsoft ATM

According to News.com, Microsoft has made a $12 million payment to Opera to settle a dispute about Microsoft properties purposefully writing code to not work with Opera. I have written before about what I call the Microsoft ATM, which is in reference to Microsoft's recent propensity to shell out cash to settle all problems. What is more troublesome about this apparent settlement is that these are exactly the tactics that Ballmer & Gates have been claiming to try and eradicate from the company culture. Apparently they have some more work to do.