OOXML contradictions are online
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| If anything, they illustrate what a long, long way it has to go
| before becoming an ISO standard, if it ever does so.
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http://www.sutor.com/newsite/blog-open/?p=1528
Web 2.0 Expo: Chris Messina and Jeremy Keith Lament the Death of View Source
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| For a certain class of users, the death of View Source is a feature,
| not a bug, but it's certainly the case that access to source code
| is one of the best ways to learn. On the other hand, there is more
| than one kind of application and there is more than one way for
| knowledge to be transmitted from experienced developers to less
| experienced developers.
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http://mcmanus.typepad.com/grind/2007/04/web_20_expo_chr.html
Attempts to kill openness, even on the Web. ZDNet's Microsoft shill (there's
history there) said he moved from Firefox to IE because of Office
compatibility.
Related:
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| From: Bill Gates
| Sent: Saturday, December 05, 1998 9:44 AM
| To: Bob Muglia (Exchange); Jon DeVaan; Steven Sinofsky
| Cc: Paul Mariz
| Subject: Office rendering
|
| One thing we have got to change is our strategy -- allowing Office
| documents to be rendered very well by OTHER PEOPLES BROWSERS is one of the
| most destructive things we could do to the company.
|
| We have to stop putting any effort into this and make sure that Office
| documents very well depends on PROPRIETARY IE capabilities.
|
| Anything else is suicide for our platform. This is a case where Office has
| to to destroy Windows.
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http://www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/2000/PX02991.pdf
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