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[News] [Rival] Microsoft Favours Formats Mess

  • Subject: [News] [Rival] Microsoft Favours Formats Mess
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 02:23:43 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Leslie D'Monte: Double standards

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| While majors like IBM, Red Hat, Novell, Apple and the Free Software 
| Foundation (all part of the ODF alliance) support the open document format, 
| Microsoft does not subscribe to the ODF line of thinking.  
|
| [...]
|
| Multiple standards create a problem. Take, for instance, a case wherein you 
| want to retrieve an old land record from a government office in India. If the 
| record is in the OOXML format, then ODF document users would need a converter 
| to decode the record. Likewise, OOXML users would have a problem with ODF 
| documents. Microsoft has a tie-up with Novell, so the conversion may be 
| smooth. But that’s not the case with other companies.     
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http://www.business-standard.com/common/storypage.php?leftnm=lmnu9&subLeft=&autono=292022&tab=r

Format Wars

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| We hate format wars. Not because we're afraid of good old-fashioned tech 
| fisticuffs, but because they're often completely unjust. So often, the format 
| that wins isn't technically better than the competition, just cheaper or 
| better marketed. (And no, we're not just sore because we were Betamax 
| owners.)    
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http://digitalliving.cnet.co.uk/specials/0,39030785,49291589,00.htm

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