In article <9393460.Ddh9GsPpL7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
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> Microsoft's Standards Beef: Enjoy the Geek Show
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> | There is a special fast-track process that can speed up approval
> | for standards that are well understood, widely used and
> | utterly noncontroversial. Wouldn't you know it, that's the
> | process Microsoft is trying to use to get quick ISO approval
> | for its 6,000-page specification for Open XML, which only
> | exists in a brand-new product from a single vendor.
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> http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/56159.html
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> W3C launches new working group
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> | By June, the group directed by Microsoft's Chris Wilson and HTML
> | ^^^^^^^^^
> | guru Dan Connolly (W3C) will be presenting the first draft...
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> http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/86403/from/rss09
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> Related:
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> Perspective: Microsoft's amusing standards stance
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> | One fun thing to do in Web browsers is to check how well documents
> | conform to standards. For example, you can pass the URL of
> | Microsoft's letter to W3C's validator. Doing so reveals that
> | the letter is not written according to the HTML specification.
> | The validator finds 33 errors in the most lenient mode. (One of
> | the errors is the use of the "layer" element. (The "layer" element?!)
> |
> | Microsoft--please--if you think standards are so important,
> | why not start using them?
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> http://news.com.com/2010-1013_3-6161285.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news
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> Microsoft: Make our HD Photo format a standard
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> | "You're still probably talking at least a couple years before you get
> | some form of critical mass," Lee said, and displacing JPEG is
> | another challenge beyond that. "They're just at the very, very
> | beginning."
MS is resorting to shoddy gimmicks to make money -- they have nothing
great anyone wants to buy.
Linux will be like the hoards of locusts, and tear the great MS crop to
shreds.
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