In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
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on Thu, 01 Mar 2007 22:03:54 +0000
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> Europe Threatens New Microsoft Fines
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> | The European Union escalated its trans-Atlantic fight with Microsoft
> | Corp. on Thursday, threatening new multimillion fines against the
> | software maker over claims it is asking rivals to pay too much
> | for information that would help their servers work with Windows.
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> http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070301/eu_microsoft.html?.v=5
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> Microsoft's dirty secrets:
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> | A number of Microsoft ex-employees and certified
> | developers have referred to much of Microsoft's
> | formal documentationa s "undocumentation"
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> http://www.sonic.net/~undoc/comes_v_microsoft/Supp_Rpt_Andrew_Schulman.pdf
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> Upon Vista release:
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> 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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> Software rivals say Microsoft's Vista illegal in Europe (at CNNMoney.com)
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> | Software manufacturers, citing 2004 European Commission finding,
> | contend the operating system violates server laws in Europe.
> |
> | [...]
> |
> | "Vista is the first step of Microsoft's strategy to extend its market
> | dominance to the Internet," the ECIS statement said.
> |
> | It said Microsoft's XAML markup language was "positioned to replace HTML,"
> | the industry standard for publishing documents on the Internet.
ObHuh: Huh?
Several issues here.
[1] If XAML means "Transaction Authority Markup Language", then "XAML markup
language" is quite redundant.
[2] This appears to be supported by BEA, IBM, Innodata/Isogen, SAP, and
Sun Micro. http://xml.coverpages.org/xaml.html (Regrettably,
www.xaml.org appears to be slightly dead. Maybe this proposal is as
well; it's dated 2000.)
[3] http://xml.coverpages.org/xamlFAQ20001025.html is a cached variant
of the XAML FAQ which among other things emphasizes its
vendor-neutrality.
[4] There is some redundancy.
http://www.webstandards.org/2003/10/27/longhorn-and-xaml/
mentions a 2003 effort which is apparently an answer
to Mozilla's XUL. It works with a project code-named
Avalon, which apparently collides with a discontinued
Apache project name.
My brain is beginning to hurt.
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> | Microsoft's own language would be dependent on Windows, and discriminatory
> | against rival systems such as Linux, the group says.
> |
> | They said a so-called "open XML" platform file format, known as OOXML, is
> | designed to run seamlessly only on the Microsoft Office platform.
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> http://money.cnn.com/2007/01/26/news/international/bc.vista.microsoft.eu.reut/index.htm?source=yahoo_quote
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