Cexy� wrote:
> "DeMoN_LaG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>> MS wants the world to say "hey, MS says it's a standard, we all have to
>> support it now".
>
> Well I guess it all boils down to Choices.................the world would
> be very boring if everybody used the same computer programs.
Yep, that's it in a nutshell. The main deal is some people don't like
to be forced to do certain things. Back to the topic of HTML as an
alternative posting format; I think many people feel it was forced on
the scene by Microsoft with no regard for established traditions. So,
even though it might be an advancement, the negative first impression
has doomed it from the start. To make matters worse, Outlook Express
has a serious bug with text quoting which makes people look like kooks
when they reply to Usenet posts. It also makes it very difficult to
read some of the replies coming from people using Outlook Express. Most
of them aren't even aware of this because the formatting bug does its
dirty work after the user hits send so unless they download and read
their own posts from the server they won't see the mess Outlook Express
made of their post. This is not something new, it has been a known bug
for several years and if that's not bad enough the OE software folks at
Microsoft ignore complaints about this. I read somewhere that they have
no intention of EVER fixing their program. Ain't that something?
Probably because Microsoft knows they don't have to fix it.
