[Info-vax] OT: Rob Short: Operating System Evolution

[JF Mezei]

Arne Vajhøj wrote:

> MS has been actively supporting open formats
> in the web world: HTTP, HTML, SOAP, WS-whatever etc..


Microsoft has been actively promoting its own proprietary *variations*
on accepted formats and paying/pushing web sites to adopt those features
so that those who used non Mocrosoft products would have problems
accessing those sites.