Schon gewusst? Am Morgen des 5. Dezember 1998 erging der hoheitliche Befehl von Bill Gates, die Office-Formate möglichst unbrauchbar zu gestalten.

One thing we have got to change in our strategy — allowing Office documents to be rendered very well by other peoples browsers is one of the most destructive things we could do to the company.

We have to stop putting any effort into this and make sure that Office documents very well depends on PROPRIETARY IE capabilities.

Anything else is suicide for our platform.

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Dieses Dokument und all die anderem aus diesem Verzeichnis kommen aus einem Anti-Monopol-Prozess gegen Microsoft.

Quelle