atw: Article: Former Hacker Irks Microsoft In EU Dispute

Full article in the Wall Street Journal (requires subscription):
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB114247118155599608.html?mod=todays_us_nonsub_marketplace

   "With their orders to Microsoft, the regulators are aiming to level the
   global
   playing field and make it easier for rivals' inexpensive, easily
   modified
   "open source" software to interact seamlessly with Microsoft's
   more-expensive,
   less-flexible products.

   ... the commission fined Microsoft almost $600 million and ordered it to
   produce
   a kind of instruction manual for rivals hoping to write
   Microsoft-compatible
   software for the powerful computers, or servers, that are hubs in office
   networks.

   Last year, Mr. Barrett studied the manual Microsoft produced for four
   days, tried
   to use it to write programs and, in December, pronounced it "totally
   unusable."
   "There is apparently no structure and no logic in the whole
   documentation,"
    he wrote in his report."

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