Microsoft's Game to Lose
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| If Vista, over time, fails to meet the market's high expectations,
| a good chunk of last year's gains could evaporate. In other words,
| Vista is now Microsoft's game to lose.
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http://online.barrons.com/public/article/SB117046721421997023-6z_ntXi4h4DtYvtFZCp1yIPyOOU_20070305.html?mod=mktw
http://tinyurl.com/2n3otv
Contra-indications for Ecma 376 spec, still not rebutted
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| Ecma 376 is known by various other names including DOCX, MOOX, OOXML,
| EOOXML and MS Office Open XML. The profusion of alternate namings make
| the issue much more difficult to track.
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http://technocrat.net/d/2007/2/4/14314
Related:
Microsoft's Definition of Contradictions and The Art of Rewriting History
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| Those that have been involved in National Bodies worldwide in the
| latest standardization exercise involving Microsoft OOXML may
| have been puzzled at first, then later amused, that Microsoft
| representatives have chosen to rewrite not only well accepted
| definition of contradiction but also portions of technological
| history.
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http://www.openmalaysiablog.com/2007/02/microsofts_defi.html
How Many Contradictions Can Dance on the Head of a Pin?
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| Yesterday, I learned that the Executive Board of INCITS decided
| earlier in the day not to propose to ANSI that any contradictions
| need be identified between OOXML and any ISO/IEC standards,
| Directives or other rules. The reason is that Microsoft, which
| has a member on the committee, has persuaded a sufficient number
| of members of the INCITS Executive Board to adopt a very
| conservative definition for a "contradiction" - that definition
| being essentially the one articulated by Brian Jones at his blog
| - that a contradiction arises only where a system could not run
| two products, each of which implements one of the two
| specifications in question.
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http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20070131184453743
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