Re: Microsoft does a good deed

Your subject should really say "Microsoft forced to do a good deed"


"Roedy Green" <see_website@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> European courts have forced Microsoft to do***ent the formats of its
> various application files and provide im****t/ex****t in various
> standard formats.
>
> We North Americans will get the benefit of this.
>
> It will reduce MS lockin, but it will make their products more useful
> when it is possible to create, extract and manipulate that application
> data with third party programs.
>
> I think of it this way. The data belongs to the customer, not to MS.
> What they were doing was like a bank that refused to honour
> withdrawals.
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