Sonny,
From one of your articles, MSFT VP states:
"In no way will our company restrict user's choice. Our products are open products that people can add value on quite widely, and we're
very proud of that," Ballmer said.
I would disagree with this statement. If I, as a consumer, wish un-integrated products, products that do not have Internet Exploder in them or based on it or requiring any part of it, then MSFT is not delivering what I, the consumer, wish. My choice is being limited to what MSFT wishes to provide me.
Mr Ballmer states that their products are open. This is again false. Time and time again, MSFT uses undocumented features to gain an edge. Further, open products adhere to Standards. MSFT products do not. I can point to Internet Exploder 4.0. It will handle an unknown file type being served to your system in the manner that the OS - not the standard HTTP - has defined. As an example, if you have .log associated with .txt at the OS level, IE 4.0 (perhaps others as well) will treat the file as text even if the file is actually binary.
We discovered this recently at work. Needless to say it has caused problems. Now I am not saying that anyone would create a non-text .log file however this could happen on other extensions. The Standard calls for the browser to handle the information as the Server indicates. If the server does not tell the browser how to handle the file, the browser is to do nothing and ask the user. The only way that a browser should display a file as text is if it has been defined in both the browser and server the same way and the server tells the browser. That is the Internationally defined protocol and MSFT is not following it. That means their product(s) is not 'open' but proprietary.
As mentioned to Ann, I came out of Software Engineering and have spent too much time ensuring that developed products meet standard or definitions. From what I have learned, current MSFT internet products do not properly implement the Internationally agreed upon standards.
Regards,
dmg
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