My Boycotts

This is the list of my boycotts:

• Microsoft for the development of alternative and bad designed file formats like OOXML, XML Paper Specification and Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML was a failure and Microsoft is trying to embrace and extend SVG to make it fail) when there are already standards like OpenDocument, Portable Document Format and Scalable Vector Graphics respectively. You can laugh or cry at Microsoft's Ethical Guidelines?. There They Go Again: It's Time to Just Say No to Microsoft and Ecma. The worst part is that people that buy Microsoft products pay them so they can change they formats and have their costumers buy the same software again and again. Microsoft is also using outdated file formats like BMP (by default in Microsoft Paint). Microsoft still does not know how important a Backup is, losing people data.
  
• Sony for the development of alternative technologies like Memory Stick instead of using de facto standards like Secure Digital card

These previous companies create such alternative technologies just to lock-in users and have them pay more than they would in a competitive market.

• Airis is synonymous of bad design. I have had an Airis DVB-T receiver where the remote control worked extremely bad in comparison with other products and this DVB-T finally exploded (thank god the case contained the explosion). You can find lots of criticism of www.airis-computer.com out there.
  
• El Mundo Spanish newspaper. El Mundo publishes manipulated graphs provided by the Partido Popular political party.