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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Almafeta, can you give me a screenshot of the setup program for Internet Explorer asking you if you wouldn't rather be installing Firefox or Opera? I'd really love to see that because it seems like you're confusing the selection of your search engines during the first run of IE with the idea of Microsoft actually letting people know that there are other browsers out there that have been doing what it thinks are innovative and revolutionary features of recent IE revisions for years.
Lockin with IE exists because IE is a flat-out requirement for many places, not the least of which are governmental and financial institutions. At the end of your comment you underline the main issue that's been around since the Netscape/IE war began, 'standards' being created by a company and supported only by their browser. Not to mention standards simply not being supported at all. It's obvious you're not a web developer and haven't had to deal with the lameness that is IE when so many other browsers just do things right.