it's Microsoft, what do you expect

they have no interest in open standards and their stance that vendors do a better job is self serving. With open standards, Microsoft can not change the specs when ever they decide another vendor gets too good/close to a threat to Microsofts software products.

What gets me is that it is so obvious that Microsoft Windows is the tool used to push all other Microsoft software at the expense of Microsoft Windows application vendors yet they refuse to move their products to Linux where they won't need to worry about the OS getting constantly shifted under them.