Interesting post from an old-timer regarding Microsoft's adherence to standards. I can't find the reference, but I'm betting that it goes way back (i.e. Microsoft Mail is what they now call Exchange):
Path: uni-berlin.de!fu-berlin.de!newsfeed-00.mathworks.com!panix!panix2.panix.com!not-for-mail From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) Newsgroups: news.admin.net-abuse.email Subject: Re: Microsoft refuses to accept need for postmaster@ address. Date: 20 May 2009 21:15:29 -0400 Organization: Former users of Netcom shell (1989-2000) Lines: 16 Message-ID: gv29vh$iq8$1@panix2.panix.com References: f6709601-e689-4413-b3d9-27b1f0518683@j18g2000prm.googlegroups.com NNTP-Posting-Host: panix2.panix.com X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1242868530 85 166.84.1.2 (21 May 2009 01:15:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 01:15:30 +0000 (UTC) Xref: uni-berlin.de news.admin.net-abuse.email:2817085
James W Anderson jander7@hotmail.com wrote: > > > > As you have mentioned that Microsoft does not currently provide a > >Postmaster@Microsoft.com address space per RFC821 and RFC822, we do > >provide a full help and support site at http://postmaster.live.com for > >both inbound and outbound SMTP and HTTP mail transmission support > > > >So they in the end don't want to provide a valid postmaster address. > >Comments?
As the Microsoft Mail folks explained to Eric Allman when he pointed out RFC822 violations, "Microsoft doesn't follow standards, they create them." --scott
The ODF Alliance has prepared a Fact Sheet for governments and others interested in how Microsoft's SP2 for Office 2007 handles ODF. The report revealed 'serious shortcomings that, left unaddressed, would break the open standards based interoperability that the marketplace, especially governments, is demanding.
The Open Document Format (ODF) Alliance has analyzed whether Microsoft’s Service Pack 2 for Office 2007 fulfills the promise for compatibility with the free document standard. Their findings give little reason to hope.
--Bill Gates
Comments
Roy Schestowitz
2009-05-22 17:52:51
"I don't have a cite offhand, but Eric Allman posted about it way back then on Usenet."
Jose_X
2009-05-22 15:04:10
[http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc822 is the email format protocol.. updated by rfc2822]
>> “What we are trying to do is use our server control to do new protocols and lock out Sun and Oracle specifically”
Ballmer will now be able to keep working on Gates' dream while using only one stone (lol). .. I do hope Oracle is more aggressive than Sun was in pushing Linux as its preferred platform.
Ballmer's latest great move: http://tech.yahoo.com/news/pcworld/20090522/tc_pcworld/microsoftcancelsantitrusthearingineurope
Roy Schestowitz
2009-05-22 16:05:30
Microsoft bails out of European competition hearing