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● 01.06.10

●● Microsoft Might Embrace and Extend SVG

Posted in Java, Windows at 12:14 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Summary: Microsoft and SVG — like many prior fake marriages — may blend very poorly

FOR many years, Microsoft has essentially attacked SVG by being more of less the only company that pushed for a proprietary alternative (part of OOXML). Microsoft is constantly attacking standards, including web standards and even ODF, whose interoperability it damages [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]. Let’s not forget what Microsoft tried to do to Java.

=> constantly attacking standards | including web standards | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ↺ what Microsoft tried to do to Java

Microsoft is now claiming to have “joined” SVG and one of our readers has asked: “What damage are they planning on doing?”

=> ↺ claiming

As a part of Microsoft’s continued commitment to interoperability and standards support, yesterday we submitted our request to join the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Working Group of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). We’re excited to take part in ensuring future versions of the SVG spec will meet the needs of developers and end users.

Microsoft has joined to advance its shareholders’ interests and since Microsoft’s value lies in locking of markets and removal of choice (illegal deals), this cannot pass without scrutiny. Microsoft is the boy that cried “Wolf!”, divorcing from standards many times before and fined by the courts for it. █

=> removal of choice (illegal deals)

“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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