>> I'm pretty sure that one was Kerberos. And the point was they made it 
>> so their Kerberos implementation wouldn't work with anybody else's.
> 
> But the standard allowed for that, is my point. Why have a "reserved for 
> use by vendors" field if you're going to break when vendors use it.
> 
> It wasn't "reserved for future use" as I understand it. It was "reserved 
> for relaying hidden information we failed to account for in the standard 
> that your OS needs".

OK, well that would make the situation rather different...

>>> What other standards have they done this with.
>>
>> *cough* The web?
> 
> Sorry? In what sense? That the web browser doesn't follow standards set 
> after the browser was written doesn't really mean they intentionally 
> broke the web.

If I'm not mistaken, HTML was a standard long before M$ started adding 
nonportable attributes and entities.

> People are *still* complaining about it, tho. Google is suing Microsoft 
> for bundling IE right now. The EU is suing MS for bundling Media Player, 
> in spite of every other operating system coming with the manufacturers 
> media player and in spite of there being half a dozen highly capable 
> free media players available.

OK, that doesn't make a lot of sense, no...

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