Office 2007 gets official mobile compatibility
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| Windows Mobile has not had the ability to handle OOXML-based documents until
| now.
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http://www.news.com/Office-2007-gets-official-mobile-compatibility/2110-1016_3-6220976.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news
Needless to mention, other mobile software (non-Microsoft) will 'break' when
facing this new 'dress', which serves as a binary stream. Examples include
Doc2Go for Palm OS.
OOXML: the best proprietary format briberies can buy.
Yesterday:
SaaS and OOXML
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| I am doing some corporate research these days to understand what it would
| mean if an entire company of 10,000+ employees chose to migrate to OOXML. OK,
| OK, I know ODF would probably be a better choice, but there are big bucks and
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| corporate "friendships" involved here, so it runs out of favour.
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http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?joel.3.569345
Related:
Microsoft buying it's way into OOXML ISO certification?
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| It appears that Microsoft is just buying the OOXML ISO certification!
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http://masuran.org/node/90
Microsoft’s secretive standards orgs in Former Yugoslavia
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| Croatian laws keep its national body’s votes secret, so the only way for the
| Croatian public to find out how the process went would be if a board member
| illegally leaked information out of CSI. This is, of course, unlikely to
| happen. And the Serbian national standardization body is not officially
| formed, so those two votes were easy for Microsoft, and probably not only
| ones around the globe.
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/092407-ooxml.html?page=1
Microsoft Tech Ed 2007: OpenXML
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| He was asked "Why did Microsoft push OOXML through the "Fast Track" process
| instead of the standard ISO process? Wouldn't they get less resistance than
| faced now?"
|
| His response was very frank: "Office is a USD$10 billion revenue generator
| for the company. When ODF was made an ISO standard, Microsoft had to react
| quickly as certain governments have procurement policies which prefer ISO
| standards. Ecma and OASIS are 'international standards', but ISO is the
| international 'Gold Standard'. Microsoft therefore had to rush this standard
| through. Its a simple matter of commercial interests!"
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http://www.openmalaysiablog.com/2007/09/microsoft-tech-.html
Evidence of Microsoft Influencing OOXML Votes in Nordic States
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| "This is how a standard is bought," Bosson wrote later. "I left the meeting
| in protest - pissed off."
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http://www.betanews.com/article/Evidence_of_Microsoft_Influencing_OOXML_Votes_in_Nordic_States/1188335569
Microsoft Memo to Partners in Sweden Surfaces: Vote Yes for OOXML - Updated
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| He acknowledges that the rules might need to be changed.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070829070630660
[Mandriva CEO:] An open letter to Steve Ballmer
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| Wow! I’m impressed, Steve! What have you done for these guys to change their
| mind like this? It’s pretty clear to me, and it will be clear to everyone.
| How do you call what you just did Steve, in the place where you live? In my
| place, they give it various names, I’m sure you know them.
|
| Hey Steve, how do you feel looking at yourself in the mirror in the morning?
|
| Of course, I will keep fighting this one and the next one, and the next one.
| You have the money, the power, and maybe we have a different sense of ethics
| you and I, but I believe that hard work, good technology and ethics can win
| too.
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http://blog.mandriva.com/2007/10/31/an-open-letter-to-steve-ballmer/
Lessons from Africa: How to Kill Your Own FUD
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| So, even as Microsoft claims superior quality over Linux, they act as if they
| don't even buy their own FUD. If they really believed that Windows was
| superior to Linux, they wouldn't have to bribe people with “marketing help”
| to get them to choose Windows.
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http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2007-11-09-030-26-OP-MD-MS
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