I think you have to also understand there are many 'Microsoft's' depending on which department / product you are referring to. The global company name might be the same, but departments are segmented and don't necessarily talk to each other.
I've been to a Microsoft presentation where the VB.NET product manager (one of them) was discussing the design decisions they made and the design decisions that the C# group made. Point being even groups as similar as a programming language were not at all on the same page. In fact he discussed battling with the office group about supporting certain .NET features in their API. Each group is responsible for what makes THEM money and is best for THEM, and it doesn't necessarily matter what another group is trying to promote. Hence one 'Microsoft' supported WC3 standards... Another 'Microsoft' doesn't even consider web standards when writing what .NET will put out. When it comes to the next IE7, the process will be the same. That group will make thousands of design decisions from the same basis, time and money. It will probably be very standard compliant because the market is very different right now from what it was then, but it will not be what we may want it to be. Ryan Nichols Graphic Design / Web Development Matrixwebs.com 1.800.711.2829 18330 Sutter Blvd. Morgan Hill, CA 95037 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kornel Lesinski Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 10:59 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Slightly OT... Interview with IE Dev team > Microsoft has been hyping about web-applications more than you'd > imagine, the MSDN Library is full of articles on the subject. 3 of the > included posters in the 2003 edition are about web-applications. They don't think about W3C-standards based applications. They are just using a buzzrword to push .NET apps. > But I'm convinced Microsoft will make IE7 support standards... why? > Because VS 2005 supports the entire XHTML1.1 and CSS2.1 spec They have to support some HTML, XML and CSS anyway, so that's not a problem to add few extra tags. Page you mentioned promotes layout table creator and shows some non-standard code... Microsoft knows that there are web standards. They used W3C to get help on creating technologies they needed, but Microsoft doesn't *gain* anything from supporting other W3C standards. They will support standards when they see cash coming from it, or when someone forces them to do it. How *Microsoft* would benefit from supporting XHTML and CSS2? ... it just doesn't sell. -- regards, Kornel Lesiński ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ****************************************************** ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
