Z:gnu-www-ja-gates--a97140-Then there are the gratuitous/en

Then there are the gratuitous incompatibilities and obstacles to interoperation with other software. (This is why the EU required Microsoft to publish interface specifications.) This year Microsoft packed standards committees with its supporters to procure ISO approval of its unwieldy, unimplementable and patented &ldquo;open standard&rdquo; for documents. (The EU is now investigating this.)