Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 13th Apr 2007 11:19 UTC
"It seems unfortunate if we do this work and get our partners to do the work and the result is that Linux works great without having to do the work" said Bill Gates in 1999 (pdf). While we don't know if he actually managed to do just that (creating problems to other OSes to work well with ACPI), but if he did, it is a good explanation why ACPI has been flaky on the majority of x86 computers with anything else other than Windows (the older, APM standard, seemed more compatible with alternative OSes).
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2007-01-18
Your getting modded down pretty fast for this comment, but I want to address it anyway.
First let me say that I haven't noticed the IE7 install asking if I want to install other browsers. Maybe it does, but I haven't seen it.
As for standards. Here's how I view what is standard and what is not. First of all the W3C and ECMA don't actually create standards. They create recommendations for a standard way of doing things. Not all recommendations are followed by those who choose to use them. I don't know of any browser who fully supports every W3C recommendation.
To me a standard is when more than one company (in the case of browsers) chooses to follow a given recommendation. It's not based on market share. However, I will concede that IE, in it's own way, has a coding standard. It's just a very poor one. IE7 is attempting to fix that by more closely following the W3C recommendations.
It's my opinion that browsers should not fix poorly coded web pages. We might have better web pages if browser developers elected to stop making browsers fix bad coding. However, that tends to acceptable behavior as not fixing bad code only makes the browser look inferior.