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To: sandeep who wrote (42037)	4/14/2000 12:15:00 PM
From: SunSpot	Read Replies (1) of 74651

Improving standards in a proprietary way is clearly something american. In the european telecommunication industry, it has always been the rule to comply with standards or don't communicate. Try to imagine you sign up with a new telephone company, and your number is changed to something including a %-sign. After this, only people with an % sign on their telephone dial pad can call you. Is that smart? No. I think there's a good reason why Europe is so much in front when it comes to telecommunications. Just think of ISDN - didn't have any success in USA, because you didn't standardize it. Euro ISDN on the other just works. Same with GSM, DECT etc. Microsofts problem right now is, that the more it complies with standards, the more it gets into real competition. But fighting the standards will only make those people, who communicate with standards abolish Microsoft products. I abolished Microsoft Outlook Express when I found out that I couldn't make it send e-mails to the danish Hostmaster for .dk domains, and have it work automatically. Outlook Express wasn't at that time able to send a standardized e-mail, so I had to change e-mail system. Hm.

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