____/ Linonut on Sunday 09 December 2007 13:49 : \____
>
http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/12/07/Blogger-presses-Gates-for-IE8-answers_1.html
>
> Relations between developers and designers, and the team working on
> the upgrade to Internet Explorer 7 have become increasingly rocky,
> but developers' simmering discontent has recently boiled over. In
> comments attached to posts on the Microsoft blog dedicated to the
> browser, developers have chastised Microsoft for not following
> through on browser upgrade promises, for not supporting crucial Web
> standards, and most of all, for not keeping them in the loop.
>
> . . .
>
> "Maybe for you it's just a game, but for us developers, who have to
> spend 20% - 30% of our front-end dev time implementing workarounds
> for your browsers' bugs and lack of standards support, it hurts to
> even try to smile at that post," said someone identified as Yann.
>
> Microsoft -- disclosure and open-standards are just a game.
>
> On a serious note, Microsoft grew by being somewhat open with
> developers. Microsoft ignores them at it peril. Of course, this is
> only one project.
They have a new rendering engine. They might be trying an 'extend' move
(again).
,----[ Quote ]
| From: Bill Gates
| Sent: Saturday, December 05, 1998 9:44 AM
| To: Bob Muglia (Exchange); Jon DeVaan; Steven Sinofsky
| Cc: Paul Mariz
| Subject: Office rendering
|
| One thing we have got to change is our strategy -- allowing Office
| documents to be rendered very well by OTHER PEOPLES BROWSERS is one of the
| most destructive things we could do to the company.
|
| We have to stop putting any effort into this and make sure that Office
| documents very well depends on PROPRIETARY IE capabilities.
|
| Anything else is suicide for our platform. This is a case where Office has
| to to destroy Windows.
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http://antitrust.slated.org/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/2000/PX02991.pdf
ECIS Accuses Microsoft of Plotting HTML Hijack
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| An industry coalition that has represented competitors of Microsoft
| in European markets before the European Commission stepped up its
| public relations offensive this morning, this time accusing
| Microsoft of scheming to upset HTML's place in the fabric of
| the Internet with XAML, an XML-based layout lexicon forn
| etwork applications.
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http://www.betanews.com/article/ECIS_Accuses_Microsoft_of_Plotting_HTML_Hijack/1169824569
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