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This is not specific to your industry. Microsoft uses the same practices to keep down alternatives to office.
by blumkvist 13y ago
This is not specific to your industry. Microsoft uses the same practices to keep down alternatives to office.
- bluedino 13y agoMicrosoft sticks with their file formats for backwards compatibility, I'm sure they'd love to start fresh but it's not for the reason of stifling competition.
- blumkvist 13y agoMicrosoft doesn't release documentation on their specifications and constantly adds new ones, which are even harder to understand. Format specifications are the reason microsoft is where it is today. It is the single business asset that gave them much needed leverage during the 90ties and earlier 2000s to dominate the enterprise market. Microsoft defended and developed that asset extremely aggressively throughout the years and this policy lead to perceiving MS/Bill Gates as cut-throat businessman.