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[Clifton T. Sharp Jr.]

Joseph S D Yao wrote:
> I do have to admit that Microsoft's desire to extend a standard is
> occasionally for the purpose of giving a legitimate capability that is
> not otherwise available.  But often it is solely to lock in the user -
> I suspect they would have embraced EBCDIC if they had thought they
> could get away with it.  ;->

More often than not it's because the world doesn't conform to the Microsoft
method of doing things. In the early eighties when the ANSI C committee
was forming, I remember reading in InfoWorld that Microsoft walked in and
pretty much informed everyone that they would be making big changes to
the language structure, and would refuse to participate if the committee
wasn't going to see things their way. The committee basically told them
not to let the door hit them in the butt on the way out, and they walked.
I gather they were a bit less arrogant when they eventually returned.

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