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Posted in Mail, Microsoft, OpenDocument, Quote, Standard at 6:45 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Summary: Scott Dorsey on Microsoft’s behaviour in many areas
A READER sent us the following message last night:
Interesting post from an old-timer regarding Microsoft’s adherence to standards. I can’t find the reference, but I’m betting that it goes way back (i.e. Microsoft Mail is what they now call Exchange):
Path: uni-berlin.de!fu-berlin.de!newsfeed-00.mathworks.com!panix!panix2.panix.com!not-for-mail
From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
Newsgroups: news.admin.net-abuse.email
Subject: Re: Microsoft refuses to accept need for postmaster@ address.
Date: 20 May 2009 21:15:29 -0400
Organization: Former users of Netcom shell (1989-2000)
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Message-ID: gv29vh$iq8$1@panix2.panix.com
References: f6709601-e689-4413-b3d9-27b1f0518683@j18g2000prm.googlegroups.com
NNTP-Posting-Host: panix2.panix.com
X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1242868530 85 166.84.1.2 (21 May 2009 01:15:30 GMT)
X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com
NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 01:15:30 +0000 (UTC)
Xref: uni-berlin.de news.admin.net-abuse.email:2817085
James W Anderson jander7@hotmail.com wrote:
As you have mentioned that Microsoft does not currently provide a
Postmaster@Microsoft.com address space per RFC821 and RFC822, we do
provide a full help and support site at http://postmaster.live.com for
both inbound and outbound SMTP and HTTP mail transmission support
So they in the end don't want to provide a valid postmaster address.
Comments?
As the Microsoft Mail folks explained to Eric Allman when he pointed out
RFC822 violations, "Microsoft doesn't follow standards, they create them."
--scott
Meanwhile, there is plenty of coverage popping up about the latest news, namely the ODF Alliance's reaction to MSODF:
=> the ODF Alliance's reaction to MSODF
Slashdot: ODF Alliance: Microsoft Support for ODF is Lacking
=> ↺ ODF Alliance: Microsoft Support for ODF is Lacking
The ODF Alliance has prepared a Fact Sheet for governments and others interested in how Microsoft’s SP2 for Office 2007 handles ODF. The report revealed ‘serious shortcomings that, left unaddressed, would break the open standards based interoperability that the marketplace, especially governments, is demanding.
Linux Magazine: ODF Alliance: Microsoft Support for ODF is Lacking
=> ↺ ODF Alliance: Microsoft Support for ODF is Lacking
The Open Document Format (ODF) Alliance has analyzed whether Microsoft’s Service Pack 2 for Office 2007 fulfills the promise for compatibility with the free document standard. Their findings give little reason to hope.
There is a lot more in other languages, for example:
La ODF Alliance avisa a los gobiernos sobre el soporte ODF de Office 2007 SP2ODF Alliance alerta governos sobre o ‘suporte’ ODF do Office 2007 SP2Compatibilidad de Office 2007 con ODF despierta sospechas
Microsoft does not like standards, except its own. █
“What we are trying to do is use our server control to do new protocols and lock out Sun and Oracle specifically”
–Bill Gates
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