At 10:41 pm +1000 12/5/06, Peter Machell wrote:
And perhaps even a future for this dying monopoly:
"I'm sorry Microsoft took an apparent vacation for a few years. Mea
culpa. Mea maxima culpa. Go watch Bill Gates' and Dean
Hachamovitch's keynote addresses from the MIX06 conference, maybe
their apologies will mean more. You can continue to stew in that if
you want. I'm not asking that people forget that vacation - I don't
expect them to. I've moved on, and I'm trying to do the right thing
now. There's a difference between stewing in the past, and figuring
out where to go from here.
<SNIP>
Yes, I have the power to enact change. Yes, I will continue to
improve standards support and compliance in IE, and make the web
better. That's my job, my charter, my vision, and my passion. The
day it isn't, I'll quit. The day the development of the
standards-based platform in IE goes on a back burner again, I'll
quit. My management up to and including Bill Gates has said we are
back in the saddle with IE, so I have a job to get back to."
- Chris Wilson, Group Program Manager of the Internet Explorer
Platform team at Microsoft
http://blogs.msdn.com/cwilso/archive/2006/05/11/595536.aspx
Sorry not really. From the article above:
I think it's actually critically important that the reasons for
supporting standards in our products - particularly IE - be business
ones.
As in other thread (IHE/XDS) talking about telecoms standards,
businesses will only comply with voluntary standards if it makes them
money. The minute they think they can assist their own business by
not supporting standards, they will fudge them. eg SQL non-standards
in the marketplace.
The reason M$ has changed is only because it has hurt them in the
market - losing share to Firefox.
Browser "lack of standards" still makes some web sites fall over on
anything but M$ browsers. Government should regulate in the interests
of consumers.
Ian.
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