The Register: Opera to MS: Get Real About Interoperability, Mr Gates

“Last week Bill Gates got the interoperability religion.
Allegedly–given Microsoft’s long and sometimes less than
constructive history in the field of interoperability, a certain
amount of scepticism is perhaps appropriate. Hakon Lie, Chief
Technology Officer of long-standing Microsoft competitor Opera
Software, welcomes Gates’ new-found enthusiasm for
interoperability, but in the following response to Gates, has just
a few suggestions about what Microsoft might do to actually achieve
it.

“So, Mr. Gates, writes Hakon Lie, you say you believe in
interoperability. Then why, pray tell, doesn’t the web page of your
interoperability communiqué conform to the HTML4 standard as
it claims to? Why does the W3C validator diagnose 126 errors on
your page…?”

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