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	The '''Application Programming Interface for Windows''' ('''APIW''') Standard is a specification of the Microsoft [[Windows 3.1]] API drafted by [[Willows Software]]. It is the successor to previously proposed Public Windows Interface standard. It was created in an attempt to establish a vendor-neutral, platform-independent, open standard of the 16-bit Windows API not controlled by Microsoft.<ref>{{cite web \| url = http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-234.htm \| title = Standard ECMA-234 \|date=December 1995 \| publisher = [[Ecma International]] \| format = PDF }}</ref>		The '''Application Programming Interface for Windows''' ('''APIW''') Standard is a specification of the Microsoft [[Windows 3.1]] API drafted by [[Willows Software]]. It is the successor to previously proposed Public Windows Interface standard. It was created in an attempt to establish a vendor-neutral, platform-independent, open standard of the 16-bit Windows API not controlled by Microsoft.<ref>{{cite web \| url = http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-234.htm \| title = Standard ECMA-234 \|date=December 1995 \| publisher = [[Ecma International]] \| format = PDF }}</ref>

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	}}</ref> Their goal was to make it an [[International Organization for Standardization\|ISO]] standard in order to force Microsoft to comply with it (in Windows) or risk not being able sell to European or Asian governments who can only buy ISO standards-compliant products.<ref>{{cite journal		}}</ref> Their goal was to make it an [[International Organization for Standardization\|ISO]] standard in order to force Microsoft to comply with it (in Windows) or risk not being able sell to European or Asian governments who can only buy ISO standards-compliant products.<ref>{{cite journal
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	}}</ref> ~~They~~ proposed PWI to various companies and organizations including [[X/Open]], [[IEEE]] and [[Unix International]].<ref>{{cite journal		}}</ref> The PWI consortium's aims were stated as turning the proprietary Windows API into an "open, publicly available specification" and for the evolution of this specification to be the responsibility of "a neutral body". The consortium, counting Sun, IBM, Hewlett Packard and Novell among its members,<ref name="pcw199405_pwi">{{ cite magazine \| title=Opening Windows \| magazine=Personal Computer World \| date=May 1994 \| last1=Lawrence \| first1=Nick \| pages=260 }}</ref> proposed PWI to various companies and organizations including [[X/Open]], [[IEEE]] and [[Unix International]].<ref>{{cite journal
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	== References ==		== References ==
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	The '''Application Programming Interface for Windows''' ('''APIW''') Standard is a specification of the Microsoft [[Windows 3.1]] API drafted by [[Willows Software]]. It is the successor to previously proposed [[Public Windows Interface]] standard. It was created in an attempt to establish a vendor-neutral, platform-independent, open standard of the 16-bit Windows API not controlled by Microsoft.<ref>{{cite web		The '''Application Programming Interface for Windows''' ('''APIW''') Standard is a specification of the Microsoft [[Windows 3.1]] API drafted by [[Willows Software]]. It is the successor to previously proposed Public Windows Interface standard. It was created in an attempt to establish a vendor-neutral, platform-independent, open standard of the 16-bit Windows API not controlled by Microsoft.<ref>{{cite web
	\| url = http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-234.htm		\| url = http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-234.htm
	\| title = Standard ECMA-234		\| title = Standard ECMA-234

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