[extropy-chat] Microsoft

[John K Clark]

"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" <sentience at pobox.com>

> Microsoft Outlook is a *deliberate effort* to warp accepted standards

The trouble is that the people who have accepted these wonderful "Accepted 
Standards" are in the MINORITY, most people use a different standard and 
this is a problem especially for a communication standard. I'm sure 
Esperanto is a very well made language but as nobody uses it the thing is 
useless.

> in order to force people to adopt Microsoft Outlook

Your "accepted standard" people tried to force people to do one thing and 
Microsoft tried to force people to do something else, like it or not 
Microsoft won and proved to be the stronger, and there is no point in 
pretending otherwise.

  John K Clark