Should Microsoft really be leading the way?
The Inquirer has an interresting article about how Microsoft is essentially showing the way for the graphics market, and everyone else seems to have no choice but to follow... Titled "Microsoft DirectX killing innovation", there are some good thoughts in there.
But I think there is more to it that just games and graphics. Microsoft has been enjoying a dominant position throughout the industry for quite some time now. Microsoft has also developed a nack for ignoring open standards, or developing slightly incompatible implementations of their own (JScript anyone?).
I hope it backfires.