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> From the outside it's impossible to know how or why things > happen this way No it's not, it's a natural consequence of everything that is known about the psychology of computer programming. Microsoft developers, just like the rest of us, face a continuous struggle between their creative urge to do new, exciting, and useful things, and the requirements coming from their paymasters (users, customers, marketing and business strategy people) to do boring things like conforming to standards and retaining forwards compatibility. The software that comes out tells you precisely the extent to which these two opposing forces were balanced in the management culture of the organisation. Mike Kay *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ ***************************************************************************
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