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Microsoft Gives In To the EU
An anonymous reader writes with word that Redmond Developer News is reporting
that Microsoft has given in to EU threats of further fines. The company has opened up a whole host of protocols, including the Exchange protocol, under a license, the terms of which are not known. No other news outlet has picked up this story so far.
Microsoft isn't bowing down for nothing, this is all just the next step in their plan to buy the EU. Just watch, you heard it here first!
I would like to announce that I, Anonymous Coward, have also given in to threats from the Government and will be complying with local laws, subject to certain conditions that I don't yet choose to reveal. This is my latest claim to have complied with the laws that supposedly bind me. The many many previous times I've made similar claims, it has been nothing more than wordplay with no basis in reality but please don't allow that to distract you from treating this as Headline News. Just because I'm a serial liar doesn't mean I shouldn't be given the same respect and trust as everyone else. Thanks.
As a former member of the original Exchange group, of course you can't imagine anyone being creative ;) Bitch.
"No other news outlet has picked up this story so far"
Wow. I feel honored. I can now tell my grandkids when I'm old and crusty that I actually saw a peice of news that was posted first on Slashdot - as opposed to the usual way of things being recycled from Fark, Digg or CNET. Or worse, a Roland Pickadoor submission.
Is that a tear forming in the corner of my eye? Sniff.
-- Trinity in high heels carrying a whip: The donimatrix - there is no spoonerism
Mr Ballmer,
You are welcome to an account on Slashdot and don't have to be an AC.
For the record anyone can make their own protocols but unless we have some agreement then inter communication between different platforms would be impossible.
You see you'd end up with a monopoly otherwise if others weren't able to talk to your software.
I bet you didn't know THAT.
Regards
Mr Ballmer,
Again I offer you a Slashdor login so you don't have to be an AC. They are free as in beer and not that commy GPL like free thing.
Anyway, perhaps they don't know about your chair throwing abilities.
If they did they'd have more respect for you and would think more closely about the extortion racket thay appear to so unfailrly level at your charitable company.
It a shame not everyone is as fair as you and your company but some people just want everything and everything their own way.
I know that probably surprises you but there you go, you get that.
Uhh ISO now fast tracks Microsoft submissions, havnt you heard? One good thing that MSFT is now pushing their standards, that forces Adobe to follow suit with their submissions. The great thing about standards is there is so many to choose from now :)
http://www.rense.com/general79/wdx1.htm
Those yanks. They roll over and surrender at the first whiff of fine cheese :-)
I'd celebrate if Microsoft were reporthed obeying the law of gravity .
(Ballmer and his frickin' chairs... THEY NEVER COME DOWN!)
Yes, I read in TFA that it won't satisfy critics. Rob Enderle of the Enderle Group was quoted as saying so, and he sounds authoritative and trustworthy enough. I wonder if he would recommend I purchase any Microsoft products in the light of this protocol documentation release. He might be a good, unbiased person to ask about that.
Actually: (9 / 11) * 100 = 81.8181818...
You forgot his hamster.
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