Look i dount hate microsoft i just dislike the way who they make standarts. If they whould ude open and free standarts it whold be better fore eveyone.
One exemple is mp3. No Microsoft think we most have a other standart "our standart" so they creadet wma epeccialy to control "drm".
A other exemple is the webbrowser. They didnt try to ship a operatingsystem without explorer. No it has to be integrated bye them in the operatingsystem. Can you ansverm me while you need internetexplorer 5 in windows 95 to have USB support?
Apple let us the change untill macos 10.3 than they bulid in safari. Bu tye didn't made it to have the market like microsoft. They build it while there was upset that nobody could build a fast webbrowser. Ok linux (KDE) have konkerer but thats even a open standart browser and the fight about webbrowser was done when linux integrated the browser.
A thirth exemple and the last from my side is office. Ok microsofts office was made when the computer was wery easy so it was a good innovation when tey made the dokumentstandart. Even if i think that "rtf" format is a better standart than doc i will agree it works good with doc, xls and ppt. The only problem is just that microsoft make allt time problems that people cant open the "new" dokument standarts of a "new"
version of office by a other program than word, exel or powerpoint especially word. I Think thats wrong. I can agree the standart and the formats who
microsoft made but not the way who they handle the standarts. while there use them to change the market and make that a easy user most
have microsoft to use all toose things even if the person have no money to buy it.
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Look i dount hate microsoft i just dislike the way who they make standarts. If they whould ude open and free standarts it whold be better fore eveyone. One exemple is mp3. No Microsoft think we most have a other standart "our standart" so they creadet wma epeccialy to control "drm". A other exemple is the webbrowser. They didnt try to ship a operatingsystem without explorer. No it has to be integrated bye them in the operatingsystem. Can you ansverm me while you need internetexplorer 5 in windows 95 to have USB support? Apple let us the change untill macos 10.3 than they bulid in safari. Bu tye didn't made it to have the market like microsoft. They build it while there was upset that nobody could build a fast webbrowser. Ok linux (KDE) have konkerer but thats even a open standart browser and the fight about webbrowser was done when linux integrated the browser. A thirth exemple and the last from my side is office. Ok microsofts office was made when the computer was wery easy so it was a good innovation when tey made the dokumentstandart. Even if i think that "rtf" format is a better standart than doc i will agree it works good with doc, xls and ppt. The only problem is just that microsoft make allt time problems that people cant open the "new" dokument standarts of a "new" version of office by a other program than word, exel or powerpoint especially word. I Think thats wrong. I can agree the standart and the formats who microsoft made but not the way who they handle the standarts. while there use them to change the market and make that a easy user most have microsoft to use all toose things even if the person have no money to buy it.