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To: Mike Milde who wrote (10234)	8/24/1998 3:09:00 PM
From: Reginald Middleton	Read Replies (4) of 74651

<How on earth did you determine that Microsoft follows any kind of "unified standard". Most people will agree that they do whatever suits Microsoft, not what the rest of the software community is doing.> Microsoft is the standard! On the desktop, what MSFT says goes. When you distribute wordprocessing files throughout your Office, do you do so in Word> how about spread sheet files? MSFT is aiming to accomplish the same in enterprise computing (they have already created standards in the enterprise (ex. Officea and Windows). As the earlier poster said, it is the consumer who ultimately decides standards, not the software community or the standards bodies.

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