The basic software standards for the Web are striking proof.
Microsoft on Monday withdrew from a United Nations software standards group for commerce, citing "business reasons".
The collaboration features of Office depend on software standards known as Web services.
IBM ruled in mainframes because it owned the dominant hardware and software standards.
Indeed, the glue that holds it together is essentially a set of software standards.
No wonder the manufacturers are now working together to draw up common software standards.
[C4.] Microsoft Exits Standards Group Microsoft withdrew from a United Nations software standards group for commerce, citing "business reasons".
The technology will use XML, or extensible markup language, and other software standards needed to make the system work.
Gnome is a set of software standards developed by an international group of programmers led by Miguel de Icaza.
The contactless card systems in use around the world employ several different and incompatible wireless technologies and software standards.
Both Aibo and the SDR-3X are part of a wider project by Sony to create open software standards.
