Open Or Closed? Apple Battles Microsoft Over Standards.

Standards, for what they’re worth, help keep down the costs of desktop computing. So called “open” standards which are available in one form or another to all software publishers and hardware manufacturers also reduce costs and spread the use of new technology.

Steve Jobs, Apple’s founder and CEO, once said something like, the “desktop wars” are over, Microsoft won, let’s get over it and get on with life.

He was referring to the desktop operating system battle that.... (excerpted).

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