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Story: EU court crushes Microsoft's antitrust appeal

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Not defending anyone else.

Most of the organisations involved in this do already provide very good interoperability specifications. In addition many use open interface standards which encourage interoperability. Many companies see this as a way of making more money because the more systems your product can interface to the more useful it is. Microsoft's has the opposite business model where they attempt to provide everything a user could need in a closed system. Anyone wanting to link into their products then has a problem because the interfaces are not divulged. This is the corner stone of this part of the case against Microsoft. Microsoft is well known for this as even when they do implement to implement a standard they always change it and add proprietary extensions it to make it harder for third parties to use.

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