#1. My future home open desktop: The resolution
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| live in a hybrid desktop world and it bugs me. Like many people, I
| have a dual boot machine that runs both Microsoft Windows® XP and
| GNU/Linux. The flavor of Linux (as I will abbreviate it) is Ubuntu.
| I just want to have one operating system running on the machine and
| I want it to be Linux.
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| Here is a resolution for 2007: by the end of the year, my primary
| home desktop will only run Linux. I may keep an old computer running
| Windows for the occasional application, but I will work over time
| to eliminate that entirely.
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http://www.sutor.com/newsite/blog-open/?p=1287
Related:
Is Open XML a one way specification for most people?
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| Who will implement Open XML correctly and fully? Maybe Microsoft.
| Why? Since it is essentially a dump into XML of all the data
| needed for all the functionality of their Office products and
| since those products are proprietary, only they will understand
| any nuances that go beyond the spec. The spec may illuminate
| some of the mistakes that have been made and are now being
| written into a so called standard for all to have to implement,
| but I'm guessing there might be a few other shades of meaning
| that will not be clear. Fully and correctly implementing Open
| XML will require the cloning of a large portion of Microsoft's
| product. Best of luck doing that, especially since they have
| over a decade head start. Also, since they have avoided using
| industry standards like SVG and MathML, you'll have to
| reimplement Microsoft's flavor of many things. You had
| better start now. So therefore I conclude that while Microsoft
| may end up supporting most of Open XML (and we'll have to
| see the final products to see how much and how correctly),
| other products will likely only end up supporting a subset.
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http://sutor.com/newsite/blog-open/?p=1145
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