25th September 2010, 10:49 AM
That sounds like your excuse for why they're not supporting the standards everyone else is, you know, which is why I replied as I did.
I mean, wouldn't it have been great if Microsoft had actually supported the standards all along, so none of this would be a problem? But no, of course not, they did stupid things like use their own proprietary version of Java, etc.
What they're doing sounds to me like delaying supporting the open standards for as long as possible, presumably so they can push their own standards until the last possible second... because we're Microsoft, we don't support open standards!
The same thing is true with Word, why is Word the only major word processor which cannot open any documents in any competing formats, such as OpenOffice, WordPerfect, etc? Because we're Microsoft and we're number one, you support our format, we'll never even allow our word processor to READ yours. It's utterly ridiculous.
I mean, wouldn't it have been great if Microsoft had actually supported the standards all along, so none of this would be a problem? But no, of course not, they did stupid things like use their own proprietary version of Java, etc.
What they're doing sounds to me like delaying supporting the open standards for as long as possible, presumably so they can push their own standards until the last possible second... because we're Microsoft, we don't support open standards!
The same thing is true with Word, why is Word the only major word processor which cannot open any documents in any competing formats, such as OpenOffice, WordPerfect, etc? Because we're Microsoft and we're number one, you support our format, we'll never even allow our word processor to READ yours. It's utterly ridiculous.
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