And it came to pass that Matthew Thomas wrote:
> DeMoN LaG wrote:
>>
>> Q. Is Internet Explorer committed to implementing standard
>> X in the future?
>>
>> A. Microsoft is committed to implementing the Internet
>> standards that make sense to allow our customers to build
>> great solutions. As standards emerge, we evaluate them to
>> see which standards might best serve our customers' needs.
>>
>> Anyone else find that funny?
>>...
>
> That sounds perfectly sensible to me.
>
> The alternative would be wasting time implementing stuff
> that their customers *don't* want. In this case (though not
> in all cases) that wouldn't make them any money, so there
> wouldn't be any point.
>
It's like Henry Ford's comment about options:
"You can have any color you want, as long as it's black!"
GM offered a variety of colors and stole a HUGE share of Ford's
market. And forced Ford to offer more colors.
M$ is letting you have any standard you want, as long as it's
M$'s.
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}:-) Christopher Jahn
{:-( Dionysian Reveler
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