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Re: A World Without Microsoft

Author:Rob Bender
Posted:6/8/2000; 8:11:52 PM
Topic:A World Without Microsoft
Msg #:17671 (In response to 17661)
Prev/Next:17670 / 17672

Actually, the role of the OS subsidiary is to develop the infrastructure (APIs and protocols) that other companies can build internet-enabled office suites upon.

Look at WebDAV support in Office2000. You can read and save documents to folders on WebDAV-enabled servers. But can other apps take advantage of those capabilities? Nope. You want WebDAV support, you have to write it yourself. Something like that should be a well-documented API available to everyone.

Maybe another provision should be that when MS claims to support a standard (WebDAV, XML, XSL, Kerberos, etc) that it must demonstrate 100% compliance with those standards. It can develop extensions to those standards, but only once they support the base standard fully, and then those extensions should be openly and completely documented as well.

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