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Microsoft Can't DRM Docs Fast Enough

Posted by timothy on from the lock-in-now-to-avoid-lock-in dept.

grcumb writes "As part of the DoJ Anti-trust settlement, Microsoft was ordered to provide freely available documentation for its communications protocols. InfoWorld is reporting that not only are they late in delivering the required APIs, but it's because they want to convert everything to the read-only Web Archive (MHT) format, which can only be viewed in MSIE. InfoWorld reports that, "In July, Microsoft said it would complete revisions of the documentation required by the court in the autumn, a season generally reckoned to include the months of September, October and November in North America, but may now have to extend work on a beta or test version of the new documentation into December...." So we have to wait longer for a format that makes the content harder for developers (developers! developers!) to use. Maybe they didn't read the documentation ..."

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  1. Obviously! by haskins_sam · · Score: 5, Funny

    Duh! Being Microsoft, they had to make things harder for developers to use. After all, if they made it easy, it would be a Macintosh.

  2. Microsoft Not Complying? by grunt107 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I am shocked

  3. DRM? by blowdart · · Score: 5, Funny
    Microsoft said that it has published the specification for MHT and that it offers a free software development toolkit for the digital rights management system, enabling anyone to develop a new software application to decode and read the files using another browser.

    Well thats ok then. Now where's that format? Oh www.microsoft.com/download/mht-fileformat.mht .....

  4. Single point of failure by tepples · · Score: 5, Funny

    Don't we just need one machine on the net somewhere to which we can...

    Not if it gets Slashdotted.