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Redmond's Heavy Guns Go After OpenSocial

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the rat-a-tat-tat dept.

jg21 writes "It is probably coincidental, but two responses to OpenSocial from well-respected members of the Microsoft blogging community have each in their own way come out against Google's OpenSocial initiative, Dare Osabanjo because in his view OpenSocial while billed as a standardized widget platform for the Web, actually isn't. And Don Dodge because his claim is that fifty million Facebook developers "don't know what OpenSocial APIs are...and don't care.""

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  1. Microsoft employees bashing something non-MS? by ByOhTek · · Score: 5, Insightful


    Shocking! Shocking I say!

    What is wrong with the world, this day in age, when a company's employees will come out and bash the competitors competing products?
    </sarcasm>

    This is about as surprising as Ballmer bashing Apple, Apple bashing MS or Google, [insert any other corporate rivalry here]. News it ain't.

    Grammar Nazis: Yes, I am aware that "ain't" really isn't a word.

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    Self proclaimed typo king, and inventor of the bear destroying coffee table (patent not pending).
    1. Re:Microsoft employees bashing something non-MS? by $RANDOMLUSER · · Score: 5, Insightful

      It's even funnier than that! It's Microsoft employees bewailing the notion that people don't follow standards!

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      No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill