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[News] [Rival] Microsoft's #1 Innovation: Deliberatly Breaking Industry Standards

  • Subject: [News] [Rival] Microsoft's #1 Innovation: Deliberatly Breaking Industry Standards
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 04:25:05 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Browser Wars Redux: Don't Touch That Meme

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| Microsoft broke Netscape's power by breaking Web standards: it constantly 
| added new, non-standard features to Internet Explorer so that Web sites 
| written to utilise them would not be rendered properly by Netscape. Since 
| Microsoft owned the desktop then as now, and since Internet Explorer was 
| bundled with it, the company could be sure that its standards would be 
| supported over anything that Netscape tried to introduce. Gradually more and 
| more sites appeared sub-standard when viewed on Netscape, forcing people 
| either to move to Internet Explorer or run two browsers in parallel, 
| reinforcing Microsoft's features yet further.        
| 
| It was only once Internet Explorer succeeded in ousting Netscape Navigator as 
| the dominant browser that Microsoft called a halt to the campaign. In fact, 
| it not only stopped adding new twists, it stopped innovating at all for 
| years.   
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/toolbox/open-source/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=285&blogid=14


Related:

Halloween Memo I Confirmed and Microsoft's History on Standards

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|  By the way, if you are by any chance trying to figure out Microsoft's policy 
|  toward standards, particularly in the context of ODF-EOXML, that same 
|  Microsoft page is revelatory, Microsoft's answer to what the memo meant when 
|  it said that Microsoft could extend standard protocols so as to deny 
|  Linux "entry into the market":    
|
|    Q: The first document talked about extending standard protocols as a way 
|    to "deny OSS projects entry into the market." What does this mean? 
|
|    A: To better serve customers, Microsoft needs to innovate above standard 
|    protocols. By innovating above the base protocol, we are able to deliver 
|    advanced functionality to users. An example of this is adding 
|    transactional support for DTC over HTTP. This would be a value-add and 
|    would in no way break the standard or undermine the concept of standards, 
|    of which Microsoft is a significant supporter. Yet it would allow us to 
|    solve a class of problems in value chain integration for our Web-based 
|    customers that are not solved by any public standard today. Microsoft 
|    recognizes that customers are not served by implementations that are 
|    different without adding value; we therefore support standards as the 
|    foundation on which further innovation can be based.          
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070127202224445 


Gates Deposition Audio and Video

,----[ Quote ]
| Here is our local copy of the depositions of Bill Gates in the
| Microsoft anti-trust suit. We did our best to convert the
| original Windows Media files into an Open format, ogg. Your
| webmaster is responsible for the video transcoding, the
| audio-only files are contributed by a Groklaw member that
| requested to stay anonymous.
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http://www.groklaw.net/staticpages/index.php?page=GatesDepo


Related:

,----[ Quote ]
| From:       Bill Gates
| Sent:       Saturday, December 05, 1989 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://www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/2000/PX02991.pdf

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