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Thought you might be interested in this article: Microsoft API Manual So Disorganized It’s Deemed “Useless” In 2004, European Union (EU) regulators ordered Microsoft to produce a “workable” programming manual that would allow companies that use other operating systems (like Linux) to utilize the “grammar rules” needed to build software programs that could communicate with Microsoft products. Microsoft complied with the request, which was part of the an EU anti-trust lawsuit against the softare giant, but not to the satisfaction of regulators. The EU asked Microsoft to rewrite the manual because they were “dismayed with its length and its disorganization” The Wall Street Journal reported(registration required). Improvements to the manual were requested by the EU after an evaluation conducted by engineers from Oracle, Sun, IBM, and Novell. The evaluation process was tightly controlled by Microsoft, who… Read the rest: http://www.thecontentwrangler.com/article/622/

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