Word Perfect may cause some problems at 0.001% of web sites on the web, but ms is THE main problem, and their software does generate html code that uses non-standard characters.
Most of the web pages I visit are designed using microsoft software. I can tell because of all the question marks (netscape) and little boxes (konqueror and opera) that appear where apostophes, comments, etc. should appear. This is because microsoft software uses their proprietary font system to generate certain html characters which cannot be rendered by web-standard browsers using ISO or Unicode compliant systems (see http://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/demoroniser/).
There is no technical reason for microsoft to use non-standard characters in ms-generated webpages. The real reason I suspect is that it forces people to use ms browsers if they want to see web pages without errors.
Its a little thing, but it shows one of microsoft's strategies in their blatantly obvious and shameful quest to control the internet.
I have a dual-boot SuSE 7.2/Windows ME machine. I had SuSE 7.2 fully installed and running trouble free with sound, video, on the web, etc. within an hour. It took me almost a day to get a basic install of Windows ME because of bad drivers, couldn't see the usb port, reads the wrong cdrom drive, etc.
I use Star Office 5.2, emacs, LyX, the GIMP, Opera/Konqueror,RealPlayer/Flash/AcrobatReader, KNode/Kmail,Matlab($),xephem,gcc/gdb/make/opengl (mesa), Java, etc. These programs do everything I want to do, the system never crashes, it never gets viruses, and all this costs me a few hundred dollars. Equivalent ms funtionality would cost much more.
So, perhaps there were a few typos in the article, and it should have read that microsoft on the desktop is dead.
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Word Perfect may cause some problems at 0.001% of web sites on the web, but ms is THE main problem, and their software does generate html code that uses non-standard characters.
Most of the web pages I visit are designed using microsoft software. I can tell because of all the question marks (netscape) and little boxes (konqueror and opera) that appear where apostophes, comments, etc. should appear. This is because microsoft software uses their proprietary font system to generate certain html characters which cannot be rendered by web-standard browsers using ISO or Unicode compliant systems (see http://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/demoroniser/).
There is no technical reason for microsoft to use non-standard characters in ms-generated webpages. The real reason I suspect is that it forces people to use ms browsers if they want to see web pages without errors.
Its a little thing, but it shows one of microsoft's strategies in their blatantly obvious and shameful quest to control the internet.
I have a dual-boot SuSE 7.2/Windows ME machine. I had SuSE 7.2 fully installed and running trouble free with sound, video, on the web, etc. within an hour. It took me almost a day to get a basic install of Windows ME because of bad drivers, couldn't see the usb port, reads the wrong cdrom drive, etc.
I use Star Office 5.2, emacs, LyX, the GIMP, Opera/Konqueror,RealPlayer/Flash/AcrobatReader, KNode/Kmail,Matlab($),xephem,gcc/gdb/make/opengl (mesa), Java, etc. These programs do everything I want to do, the system never crashes, it never gets viruses, and all this costs me a few hundred dollars. Equivalent ms funtionality would cost much more.
So, perhaps there were a few typos in the article, and it should have read that microsoft on the desktop is dead.