__/ [ Ivan Groznii ] on Saturday 29 July 2006 12:25 \__
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> Microsoft to charge for Office beta
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>> http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6099987.html
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>> Is Micrsoft /that/ desparate for revenue?
>
> It won't be long now before OpenOffice overtakes MS Office.
In the government space in particular. See some of the recent progress:
http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20060728073716584
New friends are gained for the ODF alliance (on a daily
basis even). And Microsoft Office has no proper support for
ODF ,despite its stealing of Open Source code from
SourceForge. This looks encouraging for Linux because many
of these migrations break the shackles of key proprietary
formats.
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