Re: Change Date Format Please

Tech-Archive recommends: Speed Up your PC by fixing your registry

From: Torgeir Bakken (MVP) (Torgeir.Bakken-spam_at_hydro.com)
Date: 03/06/04 

Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2004 18:33:31 +0100

Dr John Stockton wrote:

> Torgeir Bakken wrote:
> > Dr John Stockton wrote:
> >> Those who choose to post to newsgroups distributed by the Usenet
> >> mechanism have a duty, to themselves and to others, to choose a
> >> standards-compliant interface.
> >
> >Problem is, most of those using Microsoft's Web interface doesn't
> >know that they are actually posting to Usenet, they think they post
> >to a Web forum.
>
> Those who earn a living from Microsoft would do well to encourage
> them to comply with existing standards.

Hi

Well, I and all other MVPs doesn't earn a living from Microsoft (but
many of us earn a living working with Microsoft products, but that is
another story).

Anyway, I can tell you, many MVPs have bashed Microsoft hard in the
private MVP groups (that are available for MVPs and Microsoft
personnel) for the new text format (charset="Utf-8") that was
introduced in the newest public WebNews version, because it doesn't
comply with existing standards. I think the reason for using it was to
support foreign languages character sets. There is a new version of
WebNews in the works, so lets hope that more correct decisions will be
taken there, based on input from MVPs and others.

But it would not hurt that others also speaked up about this, so feel
free to send your view on this issue to Microsoft, using e.g. this
input channel (select "Other" as product):

http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp 

--
torgeir
Microsoft MVP Scripting and WMI, Porsgrunn Norway
Administration scripting examples and an ONLINE version of the 1328 page
Scripting Guide:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/scriptcenter/default.mspx

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Microsoft MVP?
    ... In other words...the MVPs are Microsoft 'groupies'. ... What is the Microsoft MVP award? ... those communities online and offline. ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
  • Re: Change Date Format Please
    ... >>Web interface Microsoft provides to the newsgroups, ... > Those who choose to post to newsgroups distributed by the Usenet ... most of those using Microsoft's Web interface doesn't ... Administration scripting examples and an ONLINE version of the 1328 page Scripting Guide: ...
    (microsoft.public.scripting.vbscript)
  • Re: Another great example of how Word 2007 "brings commands closer to the surface"
    ... fancy functions to manage fancy documents, rather than the basic task of ... Based on the unhappiness expressed by several respected MVPs, ... but Microsoft could not completely ignore us ... commands on menus or buttons. ...
    (microsoft.public.word.newusers)
  • Re: How can I kill IE?!?!?!!?
    ... starting out as a new gray box and Microsoft was a young company. ... appreciated when I still have so much learning to do in Linux and the Windows ... are always lots of lurkers here - which "is a good thing") the MVPs are ... Netscape was my favorite browser, but it would not let me ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
  • Re: Server Monitoring Tools
    ... Microsoft CSS Online Newsgroup Support ... | Thread-Topic: Server Monitoring Tools ... |> Independent Experts (MVPs do not work for MS) ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs)