[Wylug-discuss] Set the BBC straight on Microsoft

[Roger]

Dave Fisher wrote:
> The BBC is inviting puff questions to put to Bill Gates.
> 
> Perhaps you might be interested in posing something more challenging
> than "what it is like being one of the world's richest men?", e.g. why
> is Microsoft trying to undermine the current ISO standard for office
> documents? etc.
> 
>   http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7161359.stm
> 
> I realise that few if any interesting  questions will ever be asked, but
> it might be worth spending 5 mins to pursuade the BBC spin meisters that
> brown nosing Bill may not be the best way to make themselves popular
> with the BBC's own user base.

I've sent:
How do you defend Microsoft's long term monopolist strategies, 
established while you were in full control and well documented in the US 
and EU court cases against the corporation, making it unnecessarily 
difficult to buy a computer without the latest version of Windows and 
also endeavouring to subvert international standards, most recently, the 
current ISO Standard for Office documents?

Roger