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Microsoft’s Interoperable Assimilation

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007

This is how Microsoft gets away with “interoperability” — co-opting proven standards (like XML) and turning them into Microsoft pseudo-standards, which are then set as defaults for the program while offering the real standards as options.

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