__/ [ visit http://colatrolls.blogspot.com ] on Saturday 03 February 2007
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> 'Microsoft has released tools that should make it much easier for users
> to share and save text-based files.
>
> Working with three partners Microsoft has released a translation
> program that converts Word documents into more "open" formats.
>
> Specifically, it lets users save Word documents in the ODF format
> favoured by the free Open Office application.
>
> More translation add-ons for other applications in Microsoft's Office
> package of programs will follow.'
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6323575.stm
>
> Wasn't the tool written by a 3rd party? More to follow? Only if
> Microsoft get even more scared of OSS as they are now.
Have a look here:
http://boycottnovell.com/2007/02/02/microsoft-openxmlodf-translator-10/#comment-309
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| "1) It's not full round-trip, there is a public warning by no else
| than the CleverAge guy on his blog. Any government mandated full
| round-trip scenario is thus DOA.
| 2) if you take the status documents (CSV files) for the one way or
| other way conversions, you'll see as much as half of the items with
| no status, or with partial status only, i.e. not complete.
| 3) that list in the point above deliberately ignores important
| features of documents such as password-protection.
| 4) it uses C# because the XML is so bad that it cannot rely on
| XSLT transforms alone. This proves the point of anyone questioning
| the value of the XML markup versus binary formats.
| 5) It uses C# and .NET 2.0 meaning that you are required to use
| Microsoft own proprietary stack just to run the code. In other
| words, this force feeds Microsoft .NET into corporations, whether
| they want it or not."
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There is plenty more to be said. The plugin made use of an Open Source
project from SourceForge, so Microsoft is said to have entered 'communism'
in order to bring this plugin. There's more on that blog as the developer
whose opinion is mentioned (in part) above indicates that even those who
develop for Microsoft simply loathe OOXML. This is akin to IE and Web
developers, who have a loathe-hate relationship with it. And deliberate
errors, even poor support, is there to stifle interoperability, all at the
expense of developers, not just Mac and Linux users who are discriminated
against. Microsoft against the world... and the 'pawns'... or 'one-night
stands'...
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9007527
'January 08, 2007 (Computerworld) -- A Microsoft Corp. technical evangelist
referred to independent software developers writing for Windows and the
company's other software platforms as "pawns" and compared wooing them to
convincing someone to have a one-night stand, according to testimony
presented Friday against Microsoft in an ongoing antitrust case in Iowa.
"If you've ever tried to play chess with only the pieces in the back row,
you've experienced losing, OK, because you've got to have those pawns,"
James Plamondon said in a Jan. 16, 1996, speech to members of Microsoft's
developer relations group. His comments were part of a transcript presented
as evidence in the Comes vs. Microsoft Inc. class-action lawsuit in Iowa.'
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