Funny, in the end this might actually help Microsoft.
That this is so difficult shows that Microsoft never fully documented their APIs at all. Now their internal people will have them to work with.
Correct -- and that's a good thing. Maybe they won't b!tch it up so badly if they know where they're aiming for. Maybe.
Of course, this line from the article is bullcrap:
> ...the aim of making its market-dominating software products more compatible with those of competitors.
No, documenting the APIs doesn't "make software products more compatible with competition" -- that would require changing the software products. I don't think anybody is requiring changes in the code, and this is not a source release requirement. Microsoft must DOCUMENT how to call functions, and only at a fairly high level, too. What's the big freakin' deal?
Oh I know. Microsoft is embarrassed to have to show the competition how lame, redundant, spurious, confused, and bogus its APIs really are...