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To: Pete Young who wrote (49868)	7/26/2001 11:34:36 PM
From: Katherine Derbyshire	Respond to of 70976

>>Standardization on user interface, standarization on how hardware makers could interact with the OS. The result was the boom of the 90's. << That's a bit of a logical leap. The two most obvious flaws in your argument are the claim that standards would not have evolved without Microsoft, and the claim that PC standardization was responsible for the boom of the 90s. >>standardization of the user interface to the Internet, standardization of how Internet sites interact with each other via XML. << Internet Explorer more or less duplicated the user interface provided by Netscape and its predecessors. Moreover, HTML itself was developed precisely to allow uniform data presentation across multiple platforms. MSFT had nothing to do with the creation of HTML, and in fact spends lots of time creating proprietary data formats which sabotage its intent. Similarly, XML is not a MSFT standard. It is maintained by the World Wide Web Consortium, which is mostly composed of diehard MSFT haters. As for privacy, remember that this is the company that has repeatedly tried to push through registration and licensing schemes that give Microsoft full details of your hardware and software configurations. If they're the best privacy advocate out there, we're all in trouble. Katherine