Reply to post: Re: Don't like Unix text handling - not happy MS

Windows Notepad fixed after 33 years: Now it finally handles Unix, Mac OS line endings

david 12 Silver badge

Re: Don't like Unix text handling - not happy MS

>How about a few standards, maybe, even possibly ?.<

Not like say, unix, where they unsuccessfully tried to change the ASCII standard for line endings, then went ahead and ignored it anyway.

Look, I understand: they were in a commercially competitive situation, where their technology was different from that of their competition. They tried to capture the standards process, and when that failed they just ignored it. It's not an usual story.

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