Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> July 1: No more Office 2003 for OEMs
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| It?s only been six months since Microsoft launched Office 2007 at retail. But
>| as of July 1, 2007, Microsoft won?t be making the OEM version of Office 2003
>| to its PC partners, a k a ?OEMs.?
>|
>| [...]
>|
>| Microsoft has told OEMs that they must stop selling Windows XP preloaded on
>| machines as of January 29, 2008. Retailers also are required to stop selling
>| XP on that date.
> `----
>
> http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=519
>
> Wonderful. Just to ensure everyone needs to tolerate the moving goalpost that
> is OOXML (breaking existing interoperability).
I can imagine that there will be a growing market in second-hand XP
licences... the whole activation thing is now explained, though; the
intention of requiring no more than X% of a machine changing is quite
clearly there to enforce the purchase of a new Windows licence, whether
the user needs it or not!
>
>
> Related:
>
> Microsoft Discusses Open Standards (versus Open Source Software)
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| Microsoft Discusses Open Standards (versus Open Source Software)
>| So here are some "Key Messages" from Microsoft's standards team circa
>| 2003...
>|
>| * Other types of standards (e.g., "proprietary standards")
>| and market-based mechanisms exist and are currently used to
>| facilitate interoperability. However, open standards ensure the
>| highest level of interoperability across the widest range of
>| competing products and services.
>|
>| You can read the rest but you get the idea. Sooooo ... ODF versus
>| Microsoft Open XML. I guess we should judge each based on the
>| number of implementations of each.
> `----
>
> http://stephesblog.blogs.com/my_weblog/2007/05/microsoft_discu.html
>
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| "[Microsoft:] For example, we should take the lead in establishing a common
>| approach to UI and to interoperability (of which OLE is only a part). Our
>| efforts to date are focussed too much on our own apps, and only incidentally
>| on the rest of the industry. We want to own these standards, so we should
>| not participate in standards groups. Rather, we should call 'to me' to the
>| industry and set a standard that works now and is for everyone's
>| benefit. We are large enough that this can work."
> `----
>
> http://www.os2site.com/sw/info/comes/px09509.zip
>
>
> Vista Breaks Applications
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| The big secret at Redmond is that existing applications and new
>| products will not work with Vista.
>|
>| Microsoft really doesn't want you to know this, but many of your
>| existing applications won't work with Vista. In fact, some brand
>| new products won't work with Vista.
> `----
>
> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2062318,00.asp
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