In the last year they decided to make a specification of their new XML format for Office 2007, they have managed to write ~7,000 pages and get it through the ECMA standards group and are now trying to get it fast tracked through ISO. Yet in over 5 years they couldn't document their APIs? To me that smacks of defying the court system and they should be harshly punished for willfully disobeying the courts.
again how does this correlate to vista and to compatability issues. All i see is you trying to justify your position that microsoft must be doing something, because look, they did this, when that item doesn't deal with an issue that has plaqued windows in every upgrade, maintaing backwards compatability.
The correlation is quite simple. If Microsoft had followed the court orders in both the U.S. and E.U. on documenting those APIs then Apple could have been aware of changes to the APIs and corrected the iPod software. Microsoft however has not complied with either court order in a usable form despite having had over 5 years in the U.S.. in the E.U. they claim to be unable to write the documentation. When it comes to documenting their office format they can produce the documentation in months. Why have they not been able to produce usable documentation for any of their APIs as ordered by courts on 2 continents? Why can they produce reams of documentation that they want to produce and nothing usable as ordered by the courts?
The reason i've been posting the way i have is because frankly all you do is post the same old retoric about microsoft. Nothing new, just the same rants. Frankly its tiring and just slightly hyporcritial when all you bash is one or two companies, but then won't take the same time and effort into finding flaws in the ones you place on the petistal (ie for you thus far it seems if it ain't open source, it must be bad or the company making said software must have some malicous intent behind it(this is a broad analogy)). I can understand you hating microsoft. But i personally think you are letting this hatred go to far and letting it bias you opinions and your research to an extent where they begin to loose crediability. for example, that last post you made was probably the first one i've read all the way through in a while, as most of the time i can pick up what you are saying by the first sentence or two, because what you are saying is the same stuff you have been repeating for months.
When Microsoft complies with the law and stops
illegally destroying competition then I will have nothing to complain about on that topic and won't.
When they stop forcing DRM into the system and claiming more and more rights over
my computer and stop trying to
write new laws for themselves by changing their EULA on the fly then I will stop complaining about that.
Notice I complain about specific actions and back them up. You'll also notice that I have defended and yes even complimented Microsoft on occasion. If you look back through the forums you will see me use the phrase "
Kudos to Microsoft" when they did something right. You'll also see me
insisting that a poster who claimed Microsoft had stolen code back it up with evidence or state it as opinion. So if you look you'll see I don't just "bash" Microsoft, I also compliment them when they earn it and defend them when accused without evidence.
You'll also notice if you reread my postings here that I point out that the iPod incident is suspicous and seems to carry on the pattern of changing Windows to hurt competitor. I acknowledged repeatedly that it
could be inadvertant. Is it wrong to report suspicious behaviour in a serial criminal that continues to ignore court orders? Is it wrong to consider that they are
likely continuing that illegal behaviour when there has been no sign of remorse, repentence or reformation in them?
I'm sorry if i'm being harsh, but i felt you needed a bit of an explanation to why i've been singling you out in this thread and in the other thread.
I also wonder why so many are willing to just ignore the fact that Microsoft is
not in compliance with the law on the documentation of APIs. Remember that this is supposed to be the "fix" for Microsofts illegal behaviour. So long as they don't comply with the court orders they are still continuing that behaviour and continuing to profit from it.
I like to see competition in the market place. Microsoft has (illegally) destroyed many of their competitors and have not done as ordered by the courts to allow that competition to rebuild.
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